Carolin Armada farm visit 1 and NewMarket On Fergus research visit More Carolin Armada Farm visits 1 and 2 drawings Women I drew form O' Connell Street, Ennis, and Carolin Armada Farm drawings Visit 1 Large Scale drawings in paint of Carolin - brown paper roll section 1 of brown paper landscape roll section 2 of brown paper landscape roll section 3 of brown paper [...]

Lady in waiting (room) SoonWaiting rooms are a special kind of hell. Sitting here 4 hours now, trying to endure the hospital system, sat meekly waiting, as staff breeze by carrying clipboards and doors indeterminably slam.. with that wheezing air push that heavy hospital doors do. Old man sat next to me muttering under his breath giving out, very now and then emitting loud snorts. [...]

Worked more on this today Multiple renderings of Carolin building a poly tunnel . I wanted to work on some images which conveyed her movement. Her movement was constant and repetitive, bending, reaching, stopping, pulling, walking up and down. The other images are of her IN and AMONGTh her garden as she is the garden and who made the garden, the two entities go together [...]

How do you decide what to do each day, do you have a schedule? I asked Carolin today, and she said no, I just come in and decide on the spot, I go around putting out lots of little fires before they become big ones. I liked this description a lot. I was in the Armada Kitchen Garden today which is now a lot more [...]

Just like my head, thinking about what has to be done in the next few weeks, how the days literally hurtle by and how dystopian life is- worrying about my own shit, then opening my phone and reading about Afghanistan, seeing people reaching up small kids to the soldiers, young guys who look panicked and scared shitless trying to deal with an impossible situation.. and [...]

The summer rolls on, and the current hot weather has authenticated the holiday season- it seems a lifetime away from 2 and a 1/2 weeks ago when the kids finished school Between the house build going on around us here, with the builders starting at 7 Monday to Friday, the ensuing lack of privacy as there is basically nowhere to not be seen unless I [...]

This evening I listened to a podcast about working out as the Americans call it, whilst working out. I was in the shed rowing. I was thinking about the usefulness of physical movement as a direct panacea to negative thoughts. I say panacea as the action of engaging in a physical action prevents you from full immersion into negative thoughts- its simply not possible to [...]

I am writing this now even though all my bones and body so badly want to go to bed. I pulled off Tide Map more or less, but it was such an oddly underwhelming yet also utterly overwhelming experience. I'd set my alarm for 2.40, as I was planning to leave at 3am. I got about 1.5 hours sleep between being woken up and walking [...]

SO I drove up to the Flaggy Shore this morning, Tuesday 29th to check the tide- according to my tide predictor website it should have been high tide this morning at 8.30. So I was there at 9.43 according to my phone time and the tide was like this. Woah! Much higher than I thought it would be. I would have thought it would have [...]

I had a zoom with Áine Philips today, she'd offered to do one more session to round up the chats we'd had. I wanted to ask her about the plans for the land performance works. As before, it was a very affirming experience and the simple act of having a conversation about the work with another artist was so rewarding. Áine listened to my description [...]