Flight

I embarked on this project while in lockdown as a result of the Covid-19 crisis, juxtaposing this shared experience with Máighréad Medbh’s prose-poem, “Microcosm,” from her book of internal dialogues, Savage Solitude. In her narrative she speaks as three personas: One is the instinctual emotional self; The Other is an aggregate of society-at-large, represented here by a quote from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations; I is the conscious, reasoning self. Together they constitute a single consciousness.

‘Flight’ is a reference to the story of Icarus in Greek myth, giving it a contemporary perspective. The visual and the audio are an embodiment of the dramatic inner dialogue, simultaneously questioning the nature of our existence, behaviour, morality and mortality in a global climate of uncertainty and fear of the unknown.

Flight | 2020 | 40"

Full Duration: 3’ 33” – Fomat: Digital HD – Aspect Ratio: 16:9 – Sound: Stereo

Purchased by the Highlanes Gallery 2020

Text:

Visual Artists Ireland

Irish Arts Review

Screenings and Panel Discussions:

'Loop' Festival Alalimón Galeria, Barcelona Spain (16-11-12)

Damer House Gallery 'Ten Years Anniversary of Homeland' (07-10-23)

Waterford Film Festival (12-11-2021)

Delta International Film Festival USA (02-11-2021) 

IndieCork Art(ist) Film and MTU (12-09-2021) 

Lacuna Festivals 2021 International, Contemporary Art Festival: Distance (02-07-2021)

MESA (Middle East and South Asia) Magazine online launch (27-03-2021)

The Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition (18-10-2020)

Online Programme Contemporary Irish Arts Center Los Angeles, (CIACLA ) USA (24-09-2020)

Winner of the Inaugural Janet Mullarney Prize, Open Submission curated by Joy Gerrard, Séan Kissane, and Jerome O Drisceoil, Highlanes Gallery (06-07-2020)

Selected Works