2026 Borderless Sentinel

'Borderless Sentinel' is a sound and video response to the utopian idea of a borderless state or a borderless world. Coming from Louth, a border county, the term is loaded, and if one considers the idea of no border at all at a global level it presents itself as a radical, anarchical concept that challenges all social, political and economic constructs within which we currently inhabit.

Directly embodied by the ancient companion to the River Boyne, the Grey Heron/ Mháire Fhada/ Long Mary, the work is a collage of video snippets from the coastal waterways and wetlands that link Louth and Meath. From Clogherhead to Laytown, Oldbridge to Baltray, from the flowers that sit directly over the Boyne at St. Dominics Bridge, the work reflects the rhythm and rhyme of liminal spaces, the ebb and flow water in motion. As with nature water has no edge. As a native of Drogheda this work looks beyond the geographic, economic, historic, diocesan and county border divides to attempt a moment of cohesion in a divided psyche.

Shown as part of Culture Night - Night Pools, Light Installation Trail supported by Droichead Arts Centre in partnership with Louth County Council and Drogheda's Night Time Economy Advisor.