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Work from 2010

...February 2010

 

In literature ‘the fool’ is generally a wild and unpredictable character who is unencumbered by normal conventions.  He is frequently ridiculed and denounced but he plays a crucial role because he speaks the truth when others are in denial or are afraid.  In his poem “The Fool”, Patrick Pearse describes his vision of a future Ireland.  He realises that the 1916 Rising will be a foolhardy attempt to overthrow a mightier adversary but he and his comrades are prepared to take a stand, believing that their action will bring hope to a downtrodden people.

 

I’m making Scarecrow drawings for a Tondo group exhibition in Pearse St. Library.  I’m also constructing a 10ft tall Scarecrow for the show

 - that’s his head up there !

 

 

...May 2010

 

Still working with the “What I’ve seen” image, I’ve been making a series of silk screen prints, experimenting on clear acetate and contact.  These will be for a Tondo group exhibition in the waiting room of Drogheda railway station in July.  Sitting in the waiting room, one can only imagine all the people who passed this way before.  I decided to use the “What I’ve seen” image in memory of all those people who never came home.  Perhaps their ghosts are all around us as we sit and wait.  I intend sticking the printed acetates to the window panes…  Like our memories, some of the prints will be quite clear whilst others will be faded.