Liquid Landscape

The artwork “Liquid Landscape” by Michael Najjar is based on spectacular, hitherto technically impossible footage shot together with an Icelandic drone pilot shortly after the eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland in March 2021. In an 8-minute flight, the camera moved over a newly born volcanic landscape. During the flight, the landscape becomes more and more liquefied and the camera always keeps a bird’s eye view of the increasing activity beneath it until it finally reaches the eruption crater and plunges into a Dantesque inferno. On the acoustic level, a complex sound composition enlarges the increasingly dramatic happenings on the surface. The unusual immersive visuals draw viewers deeper and deeper into the landscape and let them feel the transformation process and the creative power of the Earth.