Ves­t­pyn­ten – 11th Novem­ber, 2016

Fri
11 Nov
2016

The polar night – a beau­tiful time in the high north. The sea­son of the blue light. Nor­t­hern lights, cold, snow, silence, time for yours­elf, for fri­ends, for ever­y­thing you want.

That’s what you might think.

Rea­li­ty is dif­fe­rent. Tem­pe­ra­tures around zero and hard­ly much below. No snow, but a lot of wind and rain, recent­ly. The wind was tur­ning Isfjord’s calm waters into some­thing rather wild and furious, for a while, and the surf was smas­hing against the shore­li­ne.

Not good for the unfro­zen land. The­re is fjord now whe­re the­re used to be the shore, and the­re is shore now whe­re the­re used to be tun­dra. You don’t sleep in peace any­mo­re whe­re you could live a good life in a cosy hut just last week.

The cold coast isn’t that cold any­mo­re, and it is an ongo­ing pro­cess. Tho­se days now when an arti­fi­ci­al­ly uphea­ted and sti­mu­la­ted natu­re got clo­ser to man were the time when in the US – no, let’s not talk about it. It is just no fun at the time being, loo­king at the lar­ge events around the glo­be.

Rather than dis­cus­sing poli­tics, action was requi­red. A hut nee­ded to be emp­tied from ever­y­thing that had been nee­ded for a family’s life, bed and books, fur­ni­tu­re and fire­wood had to be moved away from the coast. Next to ever­y­thing else that was going on, the arc­tic book­wri­ting work­shop was quite busy at the same time and so on and so forth.

Gal­lery – Ves­t­pyn­ten – 11th Novem­ber, 2016

Click on thumb­nail to open an enlar­ged ver­si­on of the spe­ci­fic pho­to.

It would have been a nice job if it had not been a bit sad. Phy­si­cal work next to the fjord. The­re is still a bit of light around noon, you can just about ima­gi­ne the moun­ta­ins on the nor­t­hern side of Isfjord. And the moun­ta­ins on the other side of Advent­fjord are shi­ning through the dark­ness with all their beau­ty and cha­rac­ter.

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