Artist Statement
‘Allons! we must not stop here,
However sweet these laid-up stores, however convenient this dwelling we cannot remain here,
However shelter’d this port and however calm these waters we must not anchor here,
However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us we are permitted to receive it but a little while.’
- Song of the Open Road - Walt Whitman
A remnant is a part or quantity that is left after the greater part has been used, removed or destroyed. When moving through Oranmore Castle and the wider grounds I began to consider the idea of transition (Latin: Go across) and the relationship between moving from one to another and what remains once the transition is satisfied.
With the broad context of such an imposing and large idea about what transitions through history have taken place on these grounds; I brought it back to the specific, to the self. What does the endless cycle that transcends biological life mean to us as humans? Where do we find ourselves in relation to this ‘going across’? The work that I’ve created here, is an attempt to investigate those questions and express them through a visual language that is ephemeral and descriptive.
