My practice explores themes of existentialism and the forms of alienation and dissonance present in contemporary Irish Culture. I investigate perspective and experience in response to environment, using Suburban Dublin as a reference point to imagine new fictional narratives. By re-contextualising overlooked elements of infrastructure, I highlight moments of misalignment in everyday life, creating new narratives that challenge the purpose-built nature of the spaces linking urban and rural environments. I use absurdity as a tool to make sense of the existential unease in a world driven by fast-paced productivity, examining how meaning is assigned to objects, symbols and places through attention, repetition and stories. I’m inspired by absurdism, especially the writings of Samuel Beckett and Flann O’Brien, whose work serves as an example of surrealist existentialism, using humour and disrupted movement to situate ideas of being. A strong element of collecting both ideas and media runs through my work, which serves as a way to trace the overlooked aspects of the everyday, revealing the humour and uncanniness of the natural and artificial aesthetics in a between place.
