In 2001, The Icelandic Love Corporation: Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir, Dóra Ísleifsdóttir, Jóní Jónsdóttir and Eirún Sigurðardóttir made a poem and a series of 11 images, photographed by Páll Stefánsson. The images were shot in Snæfellsnes and members of the Hellissandur Rescue Squad appear in the photographs along with The ILC. The work was originally published in Big Magazine, New York. Composer Jóhann Jóhannson later recorded ILC singing the poem, to the tune of Icelandic folk song, Sofðu unga ástin mín.

The idea for "Where Do We Go From Here?" is based on a film script that ILC wrote in 1999. Four elflike women are experiencing nature, but on venturing too far into fantasyland an accident befalls them. Their spirits cry for help and the rescue squad comes to save them. The realism of the rescue squad is beautiful in context with the intense landscape and surreal girl characters. Within each soul, there should be an active and healthy rescue squad that saves us from our everyday worries and mental scars.

Where Do We Go From Here? has been printed in several magazines and books. The first edition of the work, 11 photographs, 70x70 cm diasec laser chrome prints, is in the collection of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary TBA21, Vienna.


Where Do We Go From Here?

Our soul is pure and proud
In our house of safety
There is never an angry cloud
Still outside there is plenty

Curiosity drove us from our happy nest
Looking for a new dimension
We hoped for all the best
In the land of beauty and tension

We ask the whale! Help!
We ask the wind! Help!
We ask the waves! Help!
We ask the world! Help!

Never reason with nature

They have received a strange message
Their radio has told them a tale
They go gladly on this passage
They believe the whale

Seeing that beauty is dying
Braveness fills their hearts and limbs
Their senses feel the crying
Searching the edges and rims

In the soft embrace of nature
The dog gives the kiss of life
Where do we go from here?
We are dressed for eternity.