Summer 2025 – Ireland – Donegal – Antrim Coast
The third step of my mobile studio bring me to Ireland. My idea, based on last year experience, was to settle the studio on the collect spot to work there, in the landscape. Irish weather forced me to adapt along the way…
Perhaps after living in Jamaica for so long, I forgot what changing weather is like. Above all, I didn’t understood what people meant when they told me that the weather changes quickly in Ireland, because they say the same thing about Belgium. It’s just 2 very different riddims.
In Ireland, the weather doesn’t change changes every half day but every 15 minutes (and that’s not just a figure of speech): the wind blows hard on the coast, calms down, comes back, the rain (real rain) comes and goes, with a lot of magical rainbows. Difficult to work outside with a torch.
Since I couldn’t set up my workshop in the incredible Irish landscapes, the coastal landscape became the workshop for ephemeral pieces: necklaces for mermaids, made on the beach to let them come and collect them at high tide.
Here some of them …
See Magpie Mobile #1 (2023) and Magpie Mobile #2 (2024)
