Welcome to Children of Ash, an ongoing research project devoted to Viking ornamental art and its understanding.
We are developing a new museum platform application designed to use technology as an interface to present academic research to museum visitors in a visually accessible and understandable way.
Our focus is on the ornamental tradition of Late Iron Age Scandinavia, expressed as a proper language, with its 'vocabulary', 'grammar', 'syntax' and 'dialects', throughout its development.
To achieve that, the original works found through archaeology are studied and 'digested' to extract their canons and underlying principles, which we present to in comprehensive visual breakdowns as well as detailed background information.
A true glimpse into the Viking mind.