Marking The Moment

Contemplative Photography, Janet Maher and Finds (Formerly From the Old Sod to the Naugatuck Valley)

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Ireland 2016, Last - Ireland Images.10

Ireland 2016, Last – Ireland Images.10

Connemara ©2016 Janet Maher

So much about my last few days in Ireland was privately wonderful due to the people with whom I shared many additional experiences. The end of my fourth trip to this magical place was more about re-connecting with people who have already become part of my present while meeting more through the connections of these friends and my stays with once-strangers via airbnb.…

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Ballyvaughan.5 - Wrapping Up

Ballyvaughan.5 – Wrapping Up

Graphite Drawings, Irish Lace ©2016 Janet Maher

Time to say goodbye to my Ballyvaughan community and the Burren, taking so many lovely memories with me into the last leg of this Ireland journey. My very heavy return box is almost taped up to ship back tomorrow, packing having become a relatively simplified process after so much adventuring here.

Several works have come out of this stay: one…

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Ireland Images.8 - Dublin, Galway

Ireland Images.8 – Dublin, Galway

If you came this way, Taking the route you would be likely to take From the place you would likely to come from, If you came this way in May time, you would find the hedges White again, in May, with voluptuary sweetness. It would be the same at the end of the journey…If you came from anywhere, At any time or at any season, It would always be the same: you would have to put off Sense and notion.…

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Ireland Images.7 - Still Point

Ireland Images.7 – Still Point

As might be expected, I’ve taken a multitude of photographs. There are several collections going of certain topics. One is of the many instances of houses that look like the classic style we first draw as children, perfect geometry.

The artist’s book that I completed yesterday has a similar structure, though the relationship to these houses was quite accidental. From the side, if the front cover…

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Ireland Images.6

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Ballyvaughan.3 - The Burren

Ballyvaughan.3 – The Burren

Poulnabrone Portal Tomb ©2016 Janet Maher

It is going to be so very strange not to see magnificent rocks enmeshed with grasses and wildflowers around me upon return to the states. Time has done that tricky thing in that I feel as if this present will continue now forever. Having done a good bit of exploring and learning over the past three weeks, it may be possible to write a bit about this very…

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Ireland Images.5 - Corcomroe Abbey

Ireland Images.5 – Corcomroe Abbey

Corcomroe Abbey, Co. Clare, Ireland ©2016 Janet Maher

Clouds Over Stones, Corcomroe Abbey ©2016 Janet Maher

One of Three Maher Graves, Corcomroe Abbey ©2016 Janet Maher

©2016 Janet Maher / Sinéad Ni Mheachair

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Ireland Images.4 - The Flaggy Shore

Ireland Images.4 – The Flaggy Shore

Flaggy Shore, video still ©2016 Janet Maher

The Flaggy Shore, Burren, Co. Clare ©2016 Janet Maher

We went into the COLD water last night with a group of women who have been meeting here at the same time both morning and night for four years. One brought a swimsuit for me. The most magic experience of this journey so far. We will go back tonight.

©2016 Janet Maher / Sinéad Ni Mheachair

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Self Portrait, Kilkee, Co. Clare, Ireland ©2016 Janet Maher

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation…*

This Sunday my father might have become ninety-two, yet instead he…

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Ireland Images.3

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Ireland Images.2

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Ireland 2016 Images

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On Fern Hill, Doolin ©2016 Janet Maher

That we can transport ourselves to an entirely other reality never ceases to amaze me. We literally drop all that seems so necessary and demanding to awake where it is possible to feel whole again. I am reminded repeatedly of childhood as I walk from place to place. The same flowers appear that I hardly ever see anymore but were among the first I had come to…

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Ireland, 2016!

This year has been one of gratitude for so many experiences that have validated the path I have chosen in life. An artist residency at the Burren College of Art is about to occur, as much as I feel it is merely a dream. Over the last decade I have come to know Ireland as a deeper ancestral home than I ever could have imagined. It is the land of my parents through their parents, grandparents,…

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Immigrant Prejudice in America

Immigrant Prejudice in America

Those who have enjoyed Waterbury Irish: From the Emerald Isle to the Brass City, will likely also enjoy the blog of Silas Bronson Library Director, Raechel Guest. Her recent essays on prejudice in nineteenth century Connecticut may be found from this link to her Waterbury Thoughts. Guest is deeply immersed in Connecticut history, with a focus upon Waterbury. I have been very impressed with her…

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Theatrically Composed Scenes Highlight Human’s Impact on Earth

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Contemplative photography

The essence of contemplative photography

Watching something with a certain relaxedness, enabling an inspired experience before you push the shutter