Hut Residency 2009
1. Peat | 2.. Untitled 30 x 30 cm Acrylic and mixed media on canvas | 3. Untitled 30 x 30 cm Acrylic and mixed media on canvas |
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4. Untitled 30 x 30 cm Acrylic and mixed media on canvas | 5. Glashavaun work site Ireland | 6. Hut |
7. Surface | 8. Peat lands | 9. Peat piles |
10. Locomotive at Glashavaun | 11. Milling at Glashavaun |
Hut Residency / Tréimhse Cónaithe 2009
In ‘The Poetics of Space’ Bachelard explores the phenomenology of the dwelling. He sees the lone hut in the landscape as luminous amongst the darkness, ‘the centre of concentrated solitude’.
The Gangers Hut at Glashabawn was a place where workers used to gather for tea and talk. Dineen in his Irish / English Dictionary (1927) defines Bothán as a hut, a hovel, a cabin, a dwelling house and Bothánach as going from house to house, having many cabins.
The gaze of THIS solitary hut is far reaching. It has witnessed over eighty years of cutting away of the bog, first by hand, then by industrial machines. It continues to see:
Taking the skin off Ag baint an craiceann de
Milling 3 times Muilleoireacht fé thrí
Harrowing 3 times Fuirseadh fé thrí
Ridging 3 times Mullaiocht fé thrí
Making the bay An bá a dhéanamh
Eleven Fields Aon ghort dhéag
Five on either side Cúig ar gach taobh
The lift An t ardú
The Pile An chruach
The Rake An ráca
Painting Ag péintéireacht
Listening Ag éisteacht
Talking Ag caint
Exchanging Ag malartú