When asking him about his personal definition of the artist Karl Elias Olson from Greenland answers that the artist is a creator of something we can use. In what way? Emotionally, economically, artistically, he says.

"When I was a boy I asked my father why we don’t have a word for stones which are not used for tools," Karl Elias Olson tells, "and my father answered: "Its because we do not have names for things that we can't eat." The Greenlandic culture has sprung from the struggle to survive and it was not until last year that a working group aiming to organize an umbrella organization for Greenland artists was established.