One of our deepest needs in life is a sense of belonging and identity. We can identify ourselves with a landscape, the area we grew up in for example or the place we live at present. Landscape within my work has become a way of seeing and an interpretation of my mind.

Landscape has always had an effect on my memory. Often I find when I walk through my childhood surroundings in county Wexford; I would recall a memories. My surroundings influence my life just as much as people, it gives me a sense of identity and helps me escape the mundane. “Space defines landscape, were as space combined with memory defines place”. (Lippard, 1998)

Through printing and photography techniques combined with glass, I build on the theme of forgotten memories and displacement of present to past. I use transparency and layering to create this effect as well other important components such as the circle and the abandoned elements in my photography. I have always been drawn to work with the circle as it represents a portal to the past.