Resurrection

Honestly.....I know it looks like three months since I wrote any thing here but it really isn't -I got as far as drafts on a number of occasions but they never made it to publication -there was always  a book or a piece of work or a trip to somewhere (anywhere!!) that called and the draft was lost.

Anyway here I am now ready to get at it. New - last  - year coming up: three weeks today(2 days ago!) - so it was time that one began to get head in order. There is a lot that I could talk about  - very intense gallery visit trip to London at the end of June; visit to Ballyferriter in the south-west which produced some interesting photos; a number of visits to Limerick Printmakers to avail of summer membership; printmaking at home; making a note/sketchbook for the coming year; organising a bookbinding weekend in Cloughjordan ( about which more later), but let's just start with  few pictures:

 

 

Right, what are we looking at  - if the theme of the past was being pursued it could be suggested that this was flayed skin and the axons of major nerves dragged out of a limb - that probably would seem somewhat gothic but after all that was a major part of thinking in what has been happening recently; however that would all be a bit of wishful thinking - still before explaining perhaps a few more gothic images are in order:

 

 

...and finally to explain where all of this came from....

 

 

...suitably dark and forboding ...

 

Alright, enough of the coyness - this is Smerwick Harbour on the north side of the Dingle Peninsula and was the site of a major massacre of Spanish sailors at Dún an Óir in the 17th century - their ghosts are still there.

The top images re of seaweed that I picked up on a late evening walk to a small beach near Ballyferriter, which reminded me of skin immediately. I hauled it all the way back here for photography.

 

That's a start - Ill give a little of the London trip next post