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earth- and starlight
passage-tombs, like the famous one at newgrange, were built by our ancestors some 5000 years ago as a means to blend with earth and to celebrate her impregnation with starlight. the visionary images and symbols carved in stone at these sites reveal the fundamental nature of ourselves, earth and the universe.
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the installation
over one hundred triangular wooden pieces are laid out to form two huge, contra-rotating spirals. in their centre rises a cone-shaped enclosure assembled of light and dark alternating zig-zags that are chainsawed out of nineteen trunks of elm and ash. from within this structure, that represents the interaction of earth- and cosmic energies, one faces a large, luminous painting: a composition in acrylics on two fine canvases depicting all engravings found in the eastern passage at knowth, co.meath.
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