CAIRN Revisited 2008

Some of you may remember one of the pieces I did to celebrate my 70th birthday. I never felt I did it justice, so I am now working on it with software which wasn't available to me at the time.

This is the story in seven steps: (plan to put up the video when I get it finished.)

• I made this video as part of my 70th birthday celebrations in 2007
• On Dollymount beach I built a CAIRN with 70 large stones from our garden in Tallaght,
• Each stone had one of the years written on it in chalk
• As I carried each stone towards the CAIRN, I thought of some person, or group of people who had once been significant in my life.
• Inside the CAIRN, I put a plastic box containing the names of these people, and my own contact details.
• When I returned to the site of the CAIRN eight days later, the tide had knocked down the CAIRN, and the box was gone.
• Only a few of the stones remained, half buried in sand in a pool of sea-water.