Tag: ephemera

Ephemera, Oct-Dec 2019.

1. A replica of the Laocoön, one of my favourite sculptures, in the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork

2. mysterious red dog that appeared from nowhere and kept me company in the courtyard of a deserted mill

3. a glimpse of local roaming cat Taibhse heading into the woods

4. Kinsale in the rain

5. Turns out I can’t taste gin, or rather, all gin tastes equally of defeat

6. Found in a second-hand bookshop

7/8. The Morrigan’s morriguts – replaced the throttle body on my rusty beloved

9/10. at a winter wedding

Ephemera, Sep 2019

Roadtrip Part II

11. Worthing seafront

12. Merlin, the Maine Coon, who lives in Axminster

13,14,15,16 rich rewards at the Lyme Regis amusement arcade

17, 18 archaic hotel in FIshguard that looked like the setting for an Agatha Christie murder mystery

19. Alex the Finn whom I met on the ferry, who told me about learning to brew beer in Carlow & the chickens he had adopted, named Moneypenny, Spicebag and Snackbox.

20. The Morrigan strapped in to the deck of the ferry, with a stowaway grasshopper clinging on next to the headlight. The grasshopper’s name is Margaret and she lives in New Ross now.

Ephemera, August 2019

after Schiele / ceramics workshop in a former linen mill / belfast pride (#RightsNow) / my neckless soulmate / someone brought an injured & indignant buzzard to the animal shelter where I volunteer / mural in a cafe in Lurgan / Justin is being patient / beach boys / the blind & immortal Snowy / over the Slieve Mish mountains

Ephemera, May/June 2019

1. excellent taxidermy at the Dead Zoo

2. wild garlic by the river at my mother’s

3. @ the Grand Social, Dublin

4. evening sun through the neighbour’s birch trees

5. my brother got drunk & sent me a Keanu Reeves t-shirt

6. Rocky “Horror of Intimacy”, the best of all dogs

7. the boys are back

8. bench near the Mass Rock in Bragan bog

9. hammock life

10. Donkey gets a bath

the last rays of sun seemed to the set the treetops on fire and then i found a pristine, perfect, ice-cold egg on the forest floor and carried it around in my pocket for days  (may 20 2019)