2000 White Blossom on Paddy Lally's Garden
The work was realised thanks to a donation of a pallet of 1.500 glass jars (beetroot containers) by The Irish Glass Bottle Co.
www.dublincity.ie/dublin-buildings/irish-glass-bottle-company-ringsend
The jars were made with at least 10% recycled glass.
The sculpture was placed on the entrance to Dublin Castle Garden as provocation about fast building works in the City:
The phrase "There is a White Blossom on Paddy Lally's Garden Today" was told by an Irish fisherman to mean "There is storm coming from the sea, today", as I found on a local book of Irish traditional stories.
It was year 2000, I was just arrived, and I felt critical in the way Dublin City Centre had been violently disrupted and quickly rebuilt, with no respect of historical references and urban planning, becoming a different city from the one I had chosen to live.
I still think the same, after the bubble exploded and the recession swiped out all the architectural plans, showing most of them being poor and not meant to last, as for most of the developing cities.
www.dublincity.ie/dublin-buildings/irish-glass-bottle-company-ringsend
The jars were made with at least 10% recycled glass.
The sculpture was placed on the entrance to Dublin Castle Garden as provocation about fast building works in the City:
The phrase "There is a White Blossom on Paddy Lally's Garden Today" was told by an Irish fisherman to mean "There is storm coming from the sea, today", as I found on a local book of Irish traditional stories.
It was year 2000, I was just arrived, and I felt critical in the way Dublin City Centre had been violently disrupted and quickly rebuilt, with no respect of historical references and urban planning, becoming a different city from the one I had chosen to live.
I still think the same, after the bubble exploded and the recession swiped out all the architectural plans, showing most of them being poor and not meant to last, as for most of the developing cities.