​Átha

Átha is Gaelic for ford and is also the name of the rural townland featured in this video piece - Killaha or Cill Átha, meaning church by the ford. It is also a liminal and timeless space. A place of crossing, one that bridges the gap between past and present. This work looks at one geographical place through the lens of Faulkner and Arendt - ‘The past is never dead, it is not even past,’.. The world we live in at any moment is the world of the past; it consists of the relics of what has been done by man for better or worse.. It is the past’s function to haunt us who are present and wish to live in the world as it really is.