My work is inspired by the Japanese philosophy of Wabi Sabi, a philosophy that reflects on the natural cycle of growth and death by embracing the glory and melancholy found in the passing of time.
As I began to engage with this eastern philosophy, it became about sensitivity to place. My influence became site-specific, an old Catholic graveyard next to my home where things are broken but cared for. The ruins that remain speak to me of the passage of time, of ritual, simplicity of form and of human connection.
Here, where the present and past inform each other, I found my own Irish understanding of Wabi Sabi.
