Ragwort and bracken. 35mm developed using bracken leaf infusion. Photos from Dublins pockets of wildness in the city

Anyone know what new resident to my lane this is, is it a sparrowhawk? I have video to show more markings/movement, the prey is a pigeon for size ref. Musta been hungry cause it snatched the bird at the top of a busy lane and carried to the nearest alcove between bins when I had to drive past.

I like all the sounds that upset people, because they're too complacent and there are some sounds that really upset them, you need to shock them out of their complacency, cause it's a bad world They need to wake to how bad it is then maybe they'll do something about it. #SunRa

COSMETIC PLAGUE on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social MARCH 2025 now up on mixcloud for playback at your leisure. Mix for the longer days www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigita...

End of the long harvest. Painting on 35mm photos developed using a mix of late winter plants, using spent logs from the fire for paint

"the curlew is always with us in the Winter because when it is going to rain they start looking up in the sky and begin to baul. We don't see them very often in Summer." Another mention of Curlews as rain foretellers from Duchas Schools Collection

"When the curlew calls or when the swallow flies low, or when the smoke of the chimney is blown downwards it is a sign of rain." Duchas Schools Collection

"I was lonely for a while this evening, listening to the crows caw as they returned home. Should I hear the beautiful lark, she would rent my heart. Now, as I write, the odd curlew mournfully calls as they fly over." Beautiful Curlew mention from Bobby Sand's prison diaries.

One morning Honour heard a crying voice outside the house. She went out and there she saw a curlew flying over the house. While she was out the house took fire. They blessing she gave to the Curlew was that its nest should never be found. www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4428...

Curlew, 35mm developed in Cleavers, Nettle and Comfrey. There are only 105 breeding pairs of Curlew left in Ireland. I’ve watched the pair here for a couple of years but I’m yet to hear the song. In 1990 there were over 5,000 breading pairs. #curlew #ecophoto #35mm

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Found in the local charity shop for a euro, can’t wait to read about the hungry grass! #irishfolklore #ecology #earthtales

The Field was created by a mammoth act of guerrilla gardening by local man Tony Louth who took it upon himself to compost over a disused car park using waste from the fruit and veg market and horse yard over years. Great short doc: vimeo.com/195645359

Feral Kale at The Field. 35mm developed using Comfrey leaf. Feral Kale at The Field. 35mm developed using Comfrey leaf. Never have I seen a kale outside of its cultivated and polite neatness, living its best life as a jubilant outlaw romping chaotically over urban landscapes. #feralecologies

A less complimentary mention of Comfrey on the Dúchas schools collection. It mentions 'comfrey or meacan oraibh'. Not heard that Irish name for it before, anyone able to translate for me? Most mentions on Dúchas note it as a cure for everything, sprains to cuts to bones www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4921...

'Also known as Lus na gcnámh mbriste (Plant of the broken bone) and Knitbone, Comfrey was used in traditional medicine as a treatment for arthritis and other bone ailments. ' Comfrey plant, from Wildflowers of Ireland www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail...

Shteamy poly tunnels. One for the massive wetness of the day. 35mm developed using the great matriarch of the photogarden, the Comfrey plant  #comfrey#plantbaseddeveloper #plantbasedphotography #ecodarkroom #sustainablepractice #artandecology #35mm #oddkin #alternativephotography

I’m actually painting pictures of infinity with my music. It has something else in it, something from another world. #SunRa

Slowly returning light. 35mm developed with winter harvested Comfrey leaf developer, my favourite of all the plant collaborators #ecodarkroom #sustainablepractice #artandecology #35mm #oddkin

an older animation of mine plus a link to Wildflowers of Ireland re Three Cornered Leek www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail...

35mm developed using Three Cornered Leek. Photos from The Field D8, an urban novel ecology that’s semi managed but largely feral. These images are from a cold February, 2024. Cont. in comments:

Pinhole camera images developed with plant based DiY developers and two mini cams made from film canisters

Some of my books from the mini library we put together between us at Earthbound Tales for people to sit with on visits. Will do a full list when the show documentation comes back and post here and on my website along with other useful info!

Earthbound Tales | Group Exhibition at Pallas Projects/Studios Karen Bowett, Dervla Clarke + Jamie Lemoine (POND Studios), Estibaliz Errazquin and Melissa O’Brien. visualartists.ie/events/earth...