To Kindle A Light

Moving beyond mechanistic worldviews toward an enchanted cosmology, I approach land, matter, and non-humans as storied and sacred. Imagining connections between the material and the immaterial, I seek the hidden magic and consciousness that flow through all things. To Kindle a Light imagines a porous boundary between the physical and the etheric. How do I photograph not just what is seen, but what is felt? Does consciousness gather in places, objects, and non-humans? How does the body know what the mind forgets about connection, reciprocity, and care?

Through collaborations with my son, studio constructions, and an ongoing dialogue with the land, I create photographic fictions that explore these metaphysical possibilities. Alongside this, I incorporate images from the Irish Folklore Collection, investigating archival memory and tracing connections between past, present, and future forms of care and relation.

Through this work, I remember and reclaim ways of being that nurture both self and world, resisting extractive models and fostering reciprocal, interdependent relationships. Turning to ancient practices of care, I imagine new pathways through uncertain futures.

“Folklore data by Dúchas © National Folklore Collection, UCD, licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0” 

To Kindle A Light

Moving beyond mechanistic worldviews toward an enchanted cosmology, I approach land, matter, and non-humans as storied and sacred. Imagining connections between the material and the immaterial, I seek the hidden magic and consciousness that flow through all things. To Kindle a Light imagines a porous boundary between the physical and the etheric. How do I photograph not just what is seen, but what is felt? Does consciousness gather in places, objects, and non-humans? How does the body know what the mind forgets about connection, reciprocity, and care?

Through collaborations with my son, studio constructions, and an ongoing dialogue with the land, I create photographic fictions that explore these metaphysical possibilities. Alongside this, I incorporate images from the Irish Folklore Collection, investigating archival memory and tracing connections between past, present, and future forms of care and relation.

Through this work, I remember and reclaim ways of being that nurture both self and world, resisting extractive models and fostering reciprocal, interdependent relationships. Turning to ancient practices of care, I imagine new pathways through uncertain futures.

“Folklore data by Dúchas © National Folklore Collection, UCD, licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0”