by the cradle of the quicken

By the Cradle of the Quicken accounts the melding of person and land. The work traces a shift. A withdrawal of flesh and bone. A becoming. The gradual shedding of the corporeal and the emergence of wry humanness, born from soil. Woven upon the idea of giving ones’ body over to the earth. Rooting in place. A heart buried and grown.

By the Cradle of the Quicken uses the symbol of the quicken tree. A tree of formidable magic, known by the Tuatha Dé Danann as a source of birth, rebirth, and protection.

Built upon myth and narrative, the work meditates on light and dark, the seen and the unseen. It follows the eye of a still and silent witness where landscape and figure become entwined. A body twisted: of tree, of branch, of bone. It seeks to unearth the layers of meaning buried within the woven sinew of earth and flesh.