Bergmal / Mound Mounts
BErgmál //
Mound Mounts
Next to highways and country roads in Iceland lie unobtrusive mounds of gravel, quietly bearing the evidence of road-laying and construction cutting through the landscape. Carved from nearby mountains and hills and piled unceremoniously in convenient lay-by’s for road maintenance, the heaps of gravel start forming echoes of the neighbouring mountains and raw landscape. These small hills of minuscule rocks imitate the shape of their former incarnations, creating a dialogue between the industrial and the natural, highlighting the accidental beauty of the human footprint on nature.
