“Steina’s more recent Mynd (2000) is a splendid six-channel projection displayed at the ZKM on six contiguous, vertically-oriented panels of a large screen … Mynd is Icelandic for image, picture, illustration, or photograph; in the cognate language, Old English, it suggested memory. There are four distinct sections to the overall work, each defined by a different aspect of the natural environment of her homeland (including the sea, and pastures with horses), and the images in each section, transformed with consummate care via subtle digital effects, were closely interrelated, varying in rhythm, direction, and other features. Their delicate rendering is, at times, almost painterly, droplets of water in slow motion suggestive of finely executed brushstrokes.”

Steina: “And that I just happened to come from a place where this landscape was very extraordinary and extraordinarily available. You don’t see telephone poles, asphalted roads, cars, any indications of a human inhabitation. But by now I suspect that my interest in landscape and specifically Icelandic landscape is much deeper. This is where I grew up. My memories are of this natural beauty, natural danger.”

Steina [about Warp and Mynd]: “We are talking about Slit Scan and Time Warp effects. Both deal with real and past time inside the frame, an exclusive property of digital image … Slit Scan effect and, to a degree, Time Warp too, remind me of our earliest experiments with horizontal Raster-Drift. These are the motives that just follow you in life, the movements of the camera, and the drifting, and everything I discovered in the first few years I am seemingly still working with.”