The Narrow Void Between the Novel and Film

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Lupine
by Daniel Dorsa

Lupine is a photographic exploration that examines grief, memory, and time’s nonlinear nature through landscape. Created during a ten-day journey around Iceland’s Ring Road, the work serves as both personal elegy and a meditation on processing trauma. Rather than documenting place, this project uses landscape as a framework for introspection, suggesting that physical displacement can create pathways to emotional clarity and narrative reconstruction.

The year leading up to this trip to Iceland was filled with personal trauma. We lost our home indirectly to the fires, ER visits became a regular occurrence, and we suffered a loss. That loss was enormous and a feeling I won’t ever quite shake.

Iceland started off as a challenge. Seemingly unrelated moments and twenty-four hour daylight came together like a fever dream, revealing a mental state of chaos, disillusionment, and uncertainty. No start or finish, just an infinite loop. As we neared the end of the trip, my sense of self began to return. Different from who I was before, but still myself.

The title Lupine references the invasive yet beautiful wildflower that blankets Iceland’s summer landscape. Like the emotions explored in the work, the lupine plant holds a duality: healing yet disruptive, natural yet foreign. I saw myself in that flower as we drove through the landscape. Not native to this place, but slowly becoming grounded in its terrain.

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