This article is from page 42 of the 2013-09-17 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 42 JPG
EXPLORING sacred places around her native Ennis provided the inspiration for Caitriona Sheedy’s contribution to Culture Night.
“The process begins with a silent walk, while observing any sensations, thoughts, feelings and then drawing a map of first impression,” she reveals.
“Then an area that you feel drawn to is chosen as the place that you carry out the next stages for the rest of the process,” she adds.
The Old Mill in Ennis became the focal point of Ms Sheedy’s study and for his exhibition she has created a wheel. “The overall feeling at the summing up was one of ‘hopelessness – afraid to die, afraid to live’,” she says.
“The wheel sits idol and I learned as a result of the project that there has been efforts by two different parties to get this place in motion again.”
The first stage of this project was undertaken by way of exploring the energy of place.
Ms Sheedy’s work already explored energy and she had decided to deepen this work by learning more about what it is her work communicates and how the energy of a particular subject could be channeled.
“Drawn to explore the energy of sacred sites, I was delighted to take part in a Goethean study of place which gave her the steps she felt would be hugely beneficial to her own work.
“On the walks in the first stage I knew that it was a huge space to take on and thought to repeat the process on my own again in different areas.
“However it seemed much more logical to invite other artists to get involved and so a call for artists was sent out and part two of the project began in May,” she adds.