Real time

These photographs are part of a larger series which emerged through collaboration with a group of sea-swimmers in Co. Waterford.

The first print here measures 100 cm W x 60 H. The second: 90 W x 60 H. The third: 40 W x 60 H.

2021

Over months the swimmers and I worked on creating pottery pieces together –using clay which had been eroded from a nearby cliff. We relied on the rock formations at the cove to act as molds for the pots. The photographs emerged as a way to capture the project before the pots were circulated back into the homes of the people who made them. We wanted to capture a sense of transference which emerged through the processes we undertook in developing the work. The daily rhythm of gathering to swim (and make) at the same place; built up a quiet, powerful energy – we wondered about trying to stretch to express this. The photographs are a fanciful representation of this stretch: where the pottery objects are like cyphers and witness to strange overlaps taking place between skin and rock.

(Funded by CREATE and Waterford Arts.)