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Burning Landscape

Burning Landscape (2016)

This series of lens based work documents gorse fires and burning landscapes in a remote peninsula in West of Ireland. Eco art practices address environmental concerns and communicate the concerns through aesthetic and often participatory practices.

The series of images bears witness to paradoxical process of consumption. The documentation of land transformation reflect the interrelationship between humans, more than human and landscape. The sheep grazing amidst the spectacle of fire became a metaphor in my practice of sacred and secular narratives unravelling in the context of the Anthropocene.

The series of images draw on Haraway’s premises that ‘it is important the stories that tell stories – it’s important the thoughts that think thoughts’ (2016). They are the foundation for a number of subsequent artworks and speculative fables such as Between Three Worlds, Family Portraits and the Sf fable, We are the Flock.

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