A small architectural detail can hold a whole world.
With Irish Goodbye, I started from a very simple fragment: a green telephone box, isolated in a paper landscape. An object from the past, filled with memories.
In Paper Dublin, I often work with these fragments of the city: a door, a façade, a bridge, a detail that keeps the trace of uses and presences.
Historic telephone box on display at the Little Museum of Dublin
A telephone box used to be a small space for speech.
You would step inside to call someone, to announce something.
In Irish Goodbye, it becomes a place of absence.
It stands there, silent, in an almost motionless landscape.
Do we always have to say goodbye?
I don’t know.
Maybe not.
Some things leave the city quietly. Some architectures remain like memories.
The work begins with drawing, then with the search for colour: the right greens, the right greys, the right blues.
Paper allows for great precision, but it remains fragile. It keeps the gestures of the hand, the small irregularities.
I often think of my frames as small theatres, in which I stage my elements: a telephone box, a hill, a cloud, shadows. The volume remains modest, but it allows the viewer to enter the image. It is a small paper scenography.
Irish Goodbye No.1
28 × 23 × 6 cm
Irish Goodbye No.1
20 × 15 × 3 cm
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