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The Marked Threshold – Talismans, Amulets, and the Architecture of Protection (Part 3)
When the year inclines toward light and doors begin to open more frequently, attention returns to thresholds. In Irish cosmology, spring is not only a season of growth but of re-entry into movement. The interior, held close through darker months, resumes exchange with the wider landscape. Windows are unlatched, gates are lifted, fields are crossed again, the journey into the growing year begins. It is at such moments of renewed permeability that cultures, across time and geog


Crowned and Concealed – Headdresses, Masks and the Architecture of Thresholds (Part 5)
This is the fifth essay in a five-part series examining how life is organised by invisible maps - biological, ecological, cultural and symbolic - and how those maps shape movement, belonging and transformation. If the earlier essays traced orientation in the living world, followed the braided human road, examined the architecture of belonging and explored textile as portable identity, this final essay turns toward threshold. It asks what happens when identity is not stabilise


The Braided Road – Movement, Memory and the Architecture of Belonging (Part 3)
This is the third essay in a five-part series examining how life is organised by invisible maps – biological, ecological, cultural and symbolic – and how those maps shape movement, belonging and transformation. If the first essay traced discipline within the living world and the second followed the human road across trade, exile and empire, this third turns to what happens after arrival. Roads do not end at settlement. They change form. Movement, once slowed, begins to build


The Invisible Map – Human Migration, Memory and the Braided Road (Part 2)
This is the second essay in a five-part series examining how life is organised by invisible maps – biological, ecological, cultural and symbolic – and how those maps shape movement, belonging and transformation. If the first essay traced the disciplined orientation embedded in non-human life, this one turns toward the human story, where movement becomes history, culture and conflict all at once. Human beings have always moved across terrain. Long before lines were surveyed in
