I like to draw animals because...
the beauty of them.
In fact, maybe I'd like to be an animal myself.
And do all these things they do.
Just to be as beautiful as an animal.
But they don't know they are beautiful.
They don't care what other animals...
if they speak about them... they don't care.
In fact, I don't know what they think.
I cannot tell what my cat is thinking.
Maybe he is thinking...
'I am a lion.'
Roar.
I was brought up in Vestmanna.
I played a lot with dolls...
dolls and fish.
Small fish at the harbour.
And I would wrap them up in paper,
and put them in my baby carriage.
And I always wanted them to close their eyes
but they couldn't close their eyes.
And then they started to stink after three days.
So I just went down again and caught some other fish.
And they were my dolls at that time.
The nature was our playground.
Look, these are the mackrel.
In South Africa I know you have a lot of these....
from elephants and antelope...
you have all these animals on the walls.
Here we have fish instead...
mackrel on the wall.
I dry it and put it on the wall... like this.
After I went to art school,
I went to work at the marine biological station.
And the first time I looked into a microscope, I was thinking,
oh my god, this is a new world that I don't know...
people don't know it exists.
And it is all around you.
And I thought that I have to draw this.
I have to show other people
what is living around you.
There are so many artists today...
good and bad.
So it's not easy, that's for sure.
You have to burn for it.
The worst thing in life is to be bored.
It is a terrible feeling to sit there,
'Sigh, I am bored, I am bored'.
I have this feeling inside of me if I do nothing,
just sit there,
I feel like I will explode.
I have to do something.
It's just something I am born with.
In a way 'krupla' yah, it can be itchy.
It is itching in my fingers to make something.
To knit and to weave,
spinning and things like that,
handicraft with wool,
it's an old tradition here in the Faroe Islands.
I think it's amazing that you can sit here
just with these simple tools
and make a thread.
And it's very relaxing.
Instead of doing nothing, I can sit here
and almost do nothing.
I think it's important that we keep this alive
in these times that we live in.
Because they say there is going to be a war,
or no electricity or whatever.
Who is going to survive?
We are... the handicraft people.
Not those with the computers.
I said to my husand, 'Why don't you knit? Knit!'
'Don't just look at TV. Knit while you sit there.'
You get bored.
'No, I am relaxed' he says.
'It's so nice doing nothing'.
I am happy we are not the same, all of us.