Those That Walked Before Me
A beach holds its own record, briefly, before the tide returns. Footprints in sand are the most provisional of traces, human, animal, invertebrate, through the same threshold between land and… Continue Reading
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After Robinson
Tim Robinson’s decades-long mapping of the west of Ireland reveals the significance of place names and the land’s memories. Here his Burren map is a testament to sustained attention, every… Continue Reading
Mapping the Terrain
Experimenting with the form and structure of memory maps (2026).
Observing Lichen
Ochrolechia parella grows on the schist rock along the coast at Glencolmcille, the same genus as crotal, the lichen harvested to dye wool, knowledge held by women and passed between… Continue Reading
Rudaí Fiáine
Rudaí Fiáine grows out of the bond between land and people that runs through Irish culture. My ancestors history is shaped by dispossession, by the famine, by migration. Yet what survived was language,… Continue Reading