Between Heaven and Earth

Throughout history the mythic Irish landscape has had a profound influence on the collective psyche of its people. The Celts saw it as a living source of wisdom, beauty, and transformative spiritual power. It is found in the work of poets and writers such as W. B. Yeats whose preoccupation with the cyclical theories of life was forever influenced by his formative years spent in the countryside. The photographs in this collection focus on the duality between the eternal and the transient. Evidence can be found in the remains of a once formidable castle that is now a crumbling, overgrown ruin; megalithic monuments created during the Neolithic period; a 6th century monastery perched 700 feet atop Skellig Michael Island; and a mountain that is slowly being devoured by wind and water leaving behind sediment that is becoming something new. Careful observation reveals an intellectual as well as a visible beauty within each brief moment of a world in continuous change. The rhythmic patterns of growth and decline and the ephemeral nature of existence unite everything in the material world.