liminal lace

Ephemeral seaweed installation | St. John’s Point Beach, County Donegal | Autumn 2022

Installed along the cliff edge at St. John’s Point in County Donegal, Liminal Lace was crafted from seaweed gathered along the strand at low tide. Knotted by hand and tied directly into the thorned branches and brambles growing from the rock face, the piece is less object than action — a quiet meditation in co-creation, using only what the tide has offered. The long strands of seaweed, still bearing salt, sand and fragments of shell, act as living thread connecting the human gesture of weaving with the quiet labor of the ocean. As it dries, contracts, darkens, and eventually degrades, the piece records the passage of time, the ephemerality of presence; it becomes proof of devotion, an offering, and a plea to belong.