This summer season, I developed a strange fascination for views from cabins, or other small and isolated ‘inside areas’ within a large and wild landscape of ‘outside’. The cabin becomes a safe haven, a microverse of stories and small symbols of cosiness and connectedness.
View from the service building in Ny-AlesundSleeping with a view, and 24hr daylight. Iqattoq cabin, mid West GreenlandI write in the cabin book. An important tradition. Photo by Sander Veraverbeke.The old core strorage facility of Store Norske coal company in Endalen, Svalbard. Somewhere last year the roof collapsed. The bridge and road to the building are not much better off.Drilled up cored, used to search for coal depositsView from the old telegraph building in Ny-Alesund, with the Chinese research station and monitoring set-ups in the backgroundView from the Dutch station in Ny-Alesund, with many trinkets collected over the yearsView from NilsebuAgain, view from NilsebuAn odd one; view through the bottom of a toilet, right on top of a bridge, as you walk from Ny-Alesund towards the area where the old campsite used to be. What a party to poop here, right off a bridge into a gully. The vegetation below the bridge is of course very lush, green and tall…
Rúna Magnússon 
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