This work consists of three sections: Rope; Traditional Irish Dancing; Water in Face. All three sections act as cultural carriers and metaphors of particular Irish signifiers and references.

ROPE - Wrapping the head in a large found ball of creosote-covered sisal twine. The rope itself is an indigenous found artefact (native Irish farming archaeology) about harvest and loss. Suffocation, smothering, entrapped.

DANCE - This champion Irish dancer is the cultural centre point or fulcrum. Dance as freedom and grounded literally and culturally, yet at the same time restricted and repressed.

WATER - Water in the face is an anointment and a drowning both. 'Across the water', a phrase Ireland uses to describe the world outside its island shores.