#whatwasleft

Gathered materials, fabricated objects - sense of an other place, another vision. #visuallanguage #foundobjects #senseofplace #materiality #materiallanguage #traces #remnants #relics #whatwasfound #whatwasleft #otherplace #notnarnia #objects #landscape #landscapeart #landscapecaptures #strangetools #semiotics #signs #contemporaryart #contemporarycraft #metalwork #flatware #gathered #collected #made #contemporaryirishart #contemporarysculpture #stuartcairns #artist https://www.instagram.com/p/B9oyvkRnRbJ/?igshid=hcj01xhoymkr

 (I’m trying to think more positive. Heh, I wonder how am I (able to be) this naive. Maybe it’s because I believe in something.)

Patina experiments - oxidised gilding metal put through a rolling mill between paper leaves these marks. Then formed, wrapped and ready for fuming .. #patina #marks #oxides #traces #whatwasleft #patination #prints #metalwork #surfaces #remnants #imprint #fabrication #colouring #process #craft #contemporarycraft #slowmaking #experiment #lines #metal #metalsmith #silversmith #stuartcairns #artist #maker #smith #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #irishcontemporaryart #artpractice https://www.instagram.com/p/B81LYDUnfF1/?igshid=16tgy2neekf8w

Rainy days .. with wanders and swims... #rainydays #october #autumn #observations #moments #coast #coastallife #drizzle #autumnal #autumnweather #seashore #shoreline #wander #traces #fragments #whatwasleft #landscape #liminalspace #littlewonders #coastalwalk #seaswim #solivagant #thalassophile #thalassotherapy #days #nature #shotoniphone https://www.instagram.com/p/B3QKYFXAcaR/?igshid=171a3ob4tomlq

Cornwall finds from St.Ives and Mousehole- beach found brass wire, pebble and hacksaw blade fragment. #finds #found #gathered #coastalfinds #collected #foundobjects #visualpoem #materiallanguage #materiality #brasswire #patina #beachpebbles #hacksawblade #fragment #whatwasleft #artofgathering #senseofplace #stivescornwall #cornwall #mouseholecornwall #coastal #artistseye #arrangement #balance #calm #lifeofthings #creativelife #artistslife #visuallanguage https://www.instagram.com/p/B2q3qHLAZ_B/?igshid=etxsk3p836oq

Finds- a jumble of bones, a rubber thimble and a sun bleached crab claw on found driftwood board. Contents of my waterproof pocket.. the claw and the bones were from Donegal and the thimble was found in the beach car park down the road. #finds #traces #materials #bones #totems #seatotems #tokens #whatwasleft #gathered #collected #forgotten #visualpoem #visuallanguage #poetics #materiality #materiallanguage #coast #coastalfinds #seashore #ofthesea #claw #driftwood #thimble #semiotics #signs #platter #senseofplace #landscape #contemporaryirishart https://www.instagram.com/p/B16hAjaAkFe/?igshid=1rfb877limcjj

Yesterday by the shore- found driftwood with paint and two small crow feathers. Wander and swim. #finds #found #gathered #collected #seashore #shorelinewander #walk #wander #wonder #materiality #moments #shoreline #whatwasleft #senseofplace #visualpoem #visuallanguage #portraitofaplace #vitaminsea #thalassophile #solivagant #driftwood #feathers #black #blackfeathers #coast #coastalmoments #coastallife #seaswim #shotoniphone https://www.instagram.com/p/B1yKap9gX2i/?igshid=13beea23gt96p

A few finds- washed up painted wooden board, seashell, steel and driftwood twig fragment. Loving the weathered red paint on the board . #finds #flotsamandjetsam #washedup #gathered #collected #found #fragments #weathered #whatwasleft #finds #foundobjects #gatherings #arrangement #materiality #materiallanguage #visualpoem #visuallanguage #fromthesea #fromthestreet #senseofplace #artistseye #thiscreativelife #beachcombing #artistslife #stuartcairns #artist #maker #smith https://www.instagram.com/p/B1wCngnAFWu/?igshid=1qs2v7egxu64s