The Story Behind the Banner

You might have looked at the banner of my blog and wondered if it is that icy cold where I live. The fact is that the picture is not at all from where I live. It's from Greenland. I was there a year and a bit ago and took the picture while on a boat trip in the Disco Bay. It was late afternoon and the sun had just set when I shot this picture. It's not manipulated at all!

I wisited the town of Ilulisat. It's a inuit town and fishing is their main income. An hours walk from town you can enjoy the view of the Icefjord. This fjord produces ice bergs like few other places. The reason beeing that the fjord is very deep and the parts of the Greenland Ice Cap that breaks off into this fjors are the size of a city block of buildings - over the sea surface! While visiting Ilulisat I made the walk and found myself all on my own in this most spectacular scenery I can imagin!

Nature is present everywhere and all the time in Greenland. It's a perfect place to have unique experiences of your self and nature!

The people of Greenland are very friendly and they are proud of their traditions as they have all reasons to be. They have made a living in one of the least producing environments on earth and I admier their respect for nature. It's sad to know that our mass consumption style of living is destroying their way of living. The effect of climate changes are strongest in the Artic region. Man made toxins are accumulated in sea mamals to such an exstend that the inuits are recommended to eat seal and whale meat only a few times a month and sometimes not at all. We should all do our part to live in a way that doesn't kill the planet.

To end on a more cheerful note, the saying in Ilulisat is that there are twice as many dogs as people in town. And here are a few.

My climate changes message bag

Some years ago I assisted in making an exhibition on climate changes that was on display outside the Parliament in Norway. We made 8 big posters that on a plastic coated canvas. When the exhibition was to be taken down, I wondered what will happen to the posters? Non of the other parties wanted them, so I took them home nthinking that they had to be recycled in one way or the other.

What to do now I thought. I suddenly got the idea of making messenger bags. They all come with a message about climate changes and the consequences - they are really message bags! I have sold a few, have on for my self, and have more posters left for a rainy day.

The bag you see here is about the Northern Sea Rout that is opening up due to melting of the ice at the North Pole. I have posters about the threaths to polar bears, idigenous people, marine life and more. I look forward to make them! The ones I have made sold really fast, so probably I will only make custom orders, and not put them on Etsy. If you should be interested you can contact me, and keep in mind that the text on the posters are in Norwegian!