I think our projected image of Bjork as this Icelandic snow princess--an image which, to be fair, she has not done much to repudiate--is so entrenched, that at this point, any profile of the artist which does not depict her as a sort of ethereal, pixie-like ambassador-of-the-arts-dispatched-from-the-celestial-heavens-to-expand-our-ideas-of-music-and-nature, is not a very accurate one. It is as though to not mention that she wears oufits most people would consider bizarre would be the equivalent of omitting a characteristic, facial feature from a portrait painting-such as the hollow of one's dimples, or a crease between the eyebrows, thereby throwing off the entire likeness of the person being painted. Abebe seems aware of this, judging by his humorous observations, but he manages to center his profile on a portrait of an artist who is first and foremost, a "rigorous, conceptual thinker."
Björk’s Big Bang
Bjork - "Hollow" music video
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