An opportunity provided by the artist/curator Carly McNulty, based in the old barracks in Kildare.

Maybe I needed this strangeness, this emptiness, this sojourn in suburbia to start to make some work about loss; specifically the loss of my partner because maybe the scaffolding of order and routine and friends and distractions allows me to evade the hopelessness, the freefall, the loss of illusory control. Kirkpatrick (2012) 5-14 July.

Davina Kirkpatrick's Cyanotype of sunflower seeds with monstrance, from residency at CAKE kildare, Ireland
Davina Kirkpatrick's Cyanotype of sunflower with monstrance and my feet in his slippers, from residency at CAKE kildare, Ireland
Davina Kirkpatrick's Cyanotype of slippers with sunflower. residency at CAKE kildare Ireland