After exploring the melancholic beauty of the first chapter and confronting the raw aggression of the third, we now turn our attention to something equally unsettling—but in an entirely different way. The fourth installment of Rocks & Trolls presents a collection of formations that defy simple categorization. These are not merely faces frozen in stone; they are geometries carved by time itself, their surfaces fractured into angular planes that seem almost intentional in their precision.
Where earlier photographs revealed recognizable features—profiles, expressions, the suggestion of emotion—these images demand a different kind of observation. Here, the trolls have been abstracted into their most fundamental components: sharp edges meeting rounded voids, parallel striations suggesting deliberate architecture, and mathematical patterns that emerge from nature’s random violence.
The landscape of Iceland’s highlands and fjord walls contains these peculiar formations in abundance. Wind, frost, and water do not work gently here; they carve with geometric ruthlessness. What emerges are faces stripped of all sentiment—bipedal creatures rendered in angular minimalism, their contours suggesting intelligence, calculation, perhaps even a cold indifference to the world around them.
These photographs represent a middle ground between the contemplative and the menacing.

The bizarre geometry of these stone formations invites questions about the nature of pattern recognition itself. Are we seeing trolls, or are we projecting the concept of trolls onto abstract shapes? The answer, perhaps, lies somewhere in the deliberate ambiguity—in the unsettling precision of these geometric rock formations in Iceland that occupy the threshold between nature and something far more deliberately constructed.