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The Engineered Face – Beauty, Visibility, and the Marketed Body
Spring turns attention toward perception. It sharpens the air and clarifies outlines. In this season the enquiry is always concerned with how form communicates before speech, how the body signals meaning without words. A recent reflection traced ritual marking across cultures – ochre pressed into skin, ink carried through generations, scarification as testament to endurance, pigment applied before ceremony and battle. Those inscriptions were not decorative gestures. They loca


Marked and Remembered – Body, Identity, and the Languages We Wear (Part 1)
Marked and Remembered opens a three-part exploration into inscription, identity and threshold within Irish cosmology and contemporary life. Across this series we will consider what it means to be marked – by land, by lineage, by culture, by story, and by the visible and invisible signs we carry upon the body and within the psyche. From inherited memory and ancestral imprinting, to the engineered faces and curated identities of modernity, and finally to the charged space of t
