Gortanna

Introducing Gortanna, a stitched reflection on land, memory, and how we connect to place.

Each embroidered fragment is an abstracted glimpse of the Irish landscape; uneven, imperfect, and intentionally unresolved. I let the thread move where it wanted to, allowing for kinks and distortions. The work holds the quiet tension of stories beneath the surface: the ghost lines of potato drills from the Famine, fairy circles in overgrown fields, boundary walls shaped by inheritance rather than logic.

Gold leaf elements are loosely placed in reference to Goddess Brigid’s cross; not as a symbol of symmetry, but of care, survival, and the cultural richness rooted in the land.

Mounted to float, each piece shifts with the light, casting shadows that echo how memory lingers and how place remembers.