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 On and On  the Yellow Knitbone shore at Project 78 Gallery https://www.project78gallery.com/onandontheyellowknitboneshore Photos by KarolĂ­na Mikesková "This can last a long time, until one erradicates directions. There is no more good sense, they are either special or forbidden, so I went round ...I went round...” From The Giratory Sense by Raymond Devos     Last year we unearthed Comfrey from the marshes and replanted it in a garden that we had access to and also in the front garden of where I live. It was nice to think that this is how one can make a garden, taking a plant from a place where it grows wild and bring it tosomewhere close where hopefully it might find it favourable to grow there too. Gardeners give each other plants and seeds all the time. Bees and birds transport seeds around too. It goes round. ​ Also having Comfrey nearby meant if it was needed to help heal sore bodies it could be done. It also became quite addictive to bring flowers and
A la recherche de Samson  Welcome to the neighbourhood Askeaton COntemporary Art, 2013   Marie Roux’s interests in geology and the various roles that stones and rock find around the Askeaton area resulted in Flying Stones, a series of photographs detailing a local limestone quarry, alongside documentation of a night-time encounter and pyrotechnic intervention with Samson’s Stone, a site often referred to in local folklore and located south of Askeaton. These images were displayed in Tierney Moran’s Hardware store where they took on an almost utilitarian role, as if they could be used as tools, measures, or even adhesives to measure, split or hold together Askeaton itself.