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Towering 82 feet above, Skogafoss marks the dramatic beginning to Iceland's Fimmvorduhals trail. There is a legend that Thrasi Thorolfsson, the first viking settler in the area, buried a treasure behind this giant waterfall. Unfortunately, I was not to be the one to find it before setting off on my hike. The Fimmvorduhals trail is a nearly 20 mile trail crosses between Eyjafjallajokull and Myrdalsjokull glaciers and directly over the craters of the infamous 2010 Eyjafjallajokull eruption.

I am both a religious thinker and an artist. My undergraduate work was in the graphic arts, and my graduate studies were in the philosophy of religion and theology. As the son of a high school art teacher, I was raised in an environment that held as sacred the simple act of slowing down and noticing that which we typically take for granted. My work in theology has taken this insight into its very heart. I've been fascinated with the idea of salvation and the way that forms of prayer which emphasize stillness, silence, and release make room for its experience. These theological sensibilities are almost identical with the generative moment in the creative process. Creativity is, in its essence, the bringing of newness into the world. It's...