Imagine finding a message in a bottle! Would it have made ??its way across the ocean with a message just for you? Or would it have been for someone else? Would you open it? Of course you would! Lose yourself for a moment in this picture! What do you think the letter would say? I had an idea for this image for quite some time before I started working on it, but in my head the result was quite different from what you see here. The bottle was uncolored, the background was more like the sky, and the sand had a different color. The only bottle I had was blue, and with a studio backdrop, some textures and sand from Sahara, this is how it turned out. I made this image in 2013. In 2016 I walked along the beach of Borrehaugene in my hometown Horten, Norway and found a real message in a bottle. It was of glass with a real cork. The letter had a ribbon around it, and it was made to look really old. I couldn't get the cork off so I had to wait until I got home to use pliers. My thoughts traveled all over the world as I drove home. The letter turned out to be from a nine year old girl in Oslo, so the bottle had not traveled very far in the week that had gone by since it was thrown in the water. Anyway, I thought it was a pleasure to answer the letter by sending the girl a card with this photo on it.