Sólarsteinn is the Icelandic word for the viking sunstone. Sunstones (optical calcite, or Iceland Spar) have a polarizing effect on light which when you look through the stone allows you to determine where the sun is in the sky no matter how overcast the day. This would've been crucial to pre-modern maritime navigation. This clip was shot through a small chunk of Iceland spar mounted in front of the lens of an iPhone 8. Like my other work, I am interested in the intersections of art and pornography. Here: I wanted to present a video that de-emphasized sharp clarity of focus and instead provide an abstract, sensual visual surface. I was thinking specifically about surreptitiously watching the scrambled adult cable channels growing up. How everything you couldn't clearly discern made the occasional ungarbled breast, erection or cunt all the more scintillating. I was also thinking about what it might be like if sometimes when you gazed through a piece of optical calcite, if the circumstances we're right (perhaps entheogenic substances had been ingested, or under the influence of enchanting music) and gazing through the sunstone offered you a glimpse not of what cannot be seen in the world around you but, instead, opens a window to something that happened long ago or far away. Perhaps a viking witch cast a spell so that the sunstone would record her touching herself so she could send it to the village doctor's daught upon whom she feels enamored--not unlike sexting.