"Tully Park Portal" 2022 Cerrywood, Co Dublin
"Tully Park Portal" 2022
for Cherrywood, Co Dublin, laser cut corten steel.
I have taken the Viking carved designs from the Rathdown stone slabs
as an inspirational starting point, and have used their forms and repetitions
to create a new composition for the columns. These adaptations are an
improvisation on the style as a way of acknowledging the heritage of
the site. I have purposely avoided using the symbol of the Christian
cross as a decorative element, in recognition of the sensitivity of
representing religious iconography outside of the context of a church
or graveyard. This design embraces the decorative elements of our distant
ancestors, not just our Viking ancestors but our neolithic ancestors
as well. Stone Age artworks, most notably at Newgrange, use concentric
circles, crescent moons, straight and arcing lines similar to those
seen on the Rathdown slabs.
Image Details
- Tully Park Portal 2022
- Detail of design on portal
- Detail of text on portal
- View from the footpath
- Proposal image