In This Shirt: Murmuration (2022)

materials: etching plastic, cotton thread, marine plywood, chain, rope, pulleys, steel.

Automatic Writing: Murmuration

Sunset pink sky warm air cooling mums garden a place of love tended her happy place things are growing and being watered a place where we played jumping over the hedges so big to us but small little things look up the starlings have arrived they are dancing above the city the sky is pink and orange and the starlings are dancing it is a thing of beauty and calm there is peace in the air and Mum is there and I feel love and happy she knows how beautiful this moment is and she shares it with me we have a bond now the starlings are friends they move as one in the sky there is joy in the air there is safety in the sky mum is calm and we are the same age for a moment looking at nature standing in nature there is no fighting or fear there is no violence or fear there is calm in the skies and her hand is in mine this is the gift that mum has shared with me we are in this moment together and the moment is love do other people see the starlings tonight are we all at peace for this moment has Belfast stopped to share the same murmuration