02/Mullagh Gearr
2026Pen on handmade paper.
21 x 30 cm
Limited Edition of 10, signed and numbered.
This drawing was generated from a sound recording taken near the Mullagh Gearr Memorial in Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo.
I was recently told the story of the lost village of Mullagh Gearr on the Mullaghmore Peninsula, whose residents were allegedly moved and their homes demolished following the construction of Classiebawn Castle in the 1860s. Although the existence of Mullagh Gearr remains undocumented, walking the ground reveals traces of boundary walls and holdings, memories embedded in the earth, lost to time.
The recording for this piece was made where the village once met the sea, a cove that bears the full force of the Atlantic. What remains is a conversation between land and sea, heard now as it might have been heard then.
The drawing is produced through a recursive feedback system that translates the sound recording into a continuously evolving series of curves. Each newly drawn curve is continuously fed back into the process, allowing the present state to be shaped by its recent past. The form behaves like a body with memory, previous positions, directions, and curvatures leave a residual influence that steers subsequent movement. Over time, the sound recording becomes a self-organising structure, an accumulation of motion shaped by both the energy of the sea and the internal memory of the system.
Three drawings were created from field recordings taken on three separate days under varying conditions. Each image is generated from approximately 15 seconds of audio, with two minute recordings also presented alongside the works here.
Each piece is signed on the back. Please note that, because the drawings are on handmade paper, each sheet may vary slightly.