Feral attraction: art, becoming, and erasure

• Main Authors: Wilson, Mark, Snaebjornsdottir, Bryndis
• Other Authors: Marvin, Garry, McHugh, Susan
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis 2014
• Subjects: 948 Scandinavia; 122 Causation; 590 Animals (Zoology); 577 Ecology; 701 Philosophy of fine & decorative arts; 779 Photographs; Hornstrandir; Iceland
• Online Access: http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/1617/; https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/1617/1/Wilson_FeralAttraction.pdf; https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203101995.ch13

In the summer of 1999 we (Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson) undertook a nine-day hike in Hornstrandir, an uninhabited and remote coastal area in the far north of Iceland. It was July and at that time of year, in that region, there is 24-hour daylight. Remarkably, however, for virtually the en...