#certeau

Earlier this year [2014], artist Kathryn Maguire worked with the young people of Sheriff Street to explore this particular Dublin phenomenon [...] and her psyche of place. [...] [T]he sculptures created by twelve young people of Sheriff Street invite us to walk the streets of Dublin in search of [...] meanings of the White Lady. [...] [H]er presence reminds us of our historic relationship with the docklands, the River Liffey and the Irish Sea. For locals from Sheriff Street to Cabra, she is said to embody the Virgin Mary, Maid Marian or Molly Malone [...]. For still others, she is a beacon of hope, like a lit candle, for families who have a child in Mountjoy prison. Bloggers have suggested other reasons for her popularity: “the twinned statues in upstairs and downstairs windows [function] as a sign that the same person lives on both floors of the house, unlike in tenement times when [...] individual rooms would be occupied by different families”; or: it “means the mother of the family is single or widowed [...].”

Or you can make your own Lady on the Rock. Young people have a gift of seeing the spectral [...]. What did these ten-year-olds have to say about her? She represents: [...] “a Goddess”, “Strength”, “Glamour”, “Hurt”; “she comes alive at night to watch me sleep” [...].

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A lovely sans serif typeface called Certeau from the design studio 'A Practice for Every Day Life'