Hildur Hákonardóttir has throughout her career intertwined art and activism, the women's rights movement, and environmentalism. In the book Red Thread, Sigrún Inga Hrólfsdóttir states that "Hildur's approach undeniably entails the mindset of the "gatherer," a person who utilizes what the environment provides," and thereby "opposition to the the modern view of the world, where humans seek to control nature". Hildur's art is "enmeshed, quite literally, with her work in the field of woman's rights, museums and cultivation of the earth" and an example of "how knowledge in one field can become a tool in an entirely different context - provided creative thinking is applied."
