![]() ![]() He was drawn to the three-dimensionality of the place: a town of 3,000, in the cleft between two towering mountains – the first seriously high ground you reach as you travel west of Oslo.īut the departing Sun left Martin feeling gloomy and lethargic. When Martin moved to Rjukan in August 2002, he was simply looking for a temporary place to settle with his young family that was close to his parents’ house and where he could earn some money. But the managers of these factories worried that their staff weren’t getting enough Sun – and eventually they constructed a cable car in order to give them access to it. ![]() Factories producing artificial fertiliser followed. Rjukan was built between 19, after an entrepreneur called Sam Eyde bought the local waterfall (known as the smoking waterfall) and constructed a hydroelectric power plant there. And then as January, February and March progress, the sunlight slowly starts to inch its way back down again. As autumn wears on, the light moves higher up the wall each day, like a calendar marking off the dates to the winter solstice. “They’re a little obsessed with it.” Possibly, he speculates, it’s because for approximately half the year, you can see the sunlight shining high up on the north wall of the valley: “It is very close, but you can’t touch it,” he says. “More than other places I’ve lived, they like to talk about the Sun: when it’s coming back, if it’s a long time since they’ve seen the Sun,” says artist Martin Andersen. The inhabitants of Rjukan in southern Norway have a complex relationship with the Sun. ![]()
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