When traveling or living abroad I have always chronicled my experiences. This has resulted in a collection of travel essays spanning nine years and five different countries. My most recent travel blog, ‘The Road to Peace is Paved with Teacups’, narrates my assimilation process into Northern Irish culture and contemporary context. Through monthly essays I reflected on various chapters of (Northern) Irish history and mythology, and how I see those intersecting with my own country’s legacy.
We come to the North Pole, feel the static charge in the freezing air, and momentarily decelerate as we pass over the crown of our planet… before plunging southwards again, down the zigzag of the Mohns Ridge fontanelle fault line, dividing the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates.
Read MoreBut Corrymeela is a place for encountering the Other, and there is one aspect in which I certainly feel challenged to courageously encounter the Other every day here, encompassed in the above in a single, small word.
Read MoreI moved to a place perched on a tall cliff above the mythical Sea of Moyle, where Lir’s swan children lived on the deep and restless currents. To a place where big skies light up and die, and roaring winds swoop down on sheep and humans and gorse and bracken tangles alike.
Read MoreMy Behind the Scenes articles describe step by step the process of discernment, coordination, delivery and post-production of my various services as a visual practitioner, in the form of case studies of several highlighted projects. In my earlier Visual Blog series I take readers along on my learning journey of my first year of working as an independent visual facilitator and graphic recorder, starting out as a sole trader and creative entrepreneur in the UK.
When traveling or living abroad I have always chronicled my experiences. This has resulted in a collection of travel essays spanning nine years and five different countries. My last travel series, ‘The Road to Peace is Paved with Teacups’, narrates my assimilation process into Northern Irish culture and contemporary context. Through monthly essays I reflected on various chapters of (Northern) Irish history and mythology, and how I saw those intersecting with my own country’s legacy. For more, read ‘Up Where the Aurora Rises‘ on my year in the Baltic archipelago of Sweden and ‘Over Where the Sun Sets‘ on my year in the student co-operatives of Davis, California.
