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Maria Lax. Ireland. From the book Stray Sod

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Maria Lax

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Maria Lax, The Blessed Folk (2024)

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Maria Lax, Stray Sod, 2026

"In the stray sod narratives, finding your way back home requires transforming something about yourself, symbolised by the act of turning your clothing inside out. Often, help comes in the form of an animal, or another person. It is people travelling alone who seem most prone to losing their way, and connection is a powerful antidote to the isolation in which we lose ourselves. However, sometimes the only way out is to keep wading through the inhospitable darkness; to simply not give up, as we hope and trust that the sun will eventually rise again."

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Maria Lax (Finnish photographer) Stray Sod, 2026.

"What could be more terrifying than losing your way in a place you thought you knew well? That was the question I kept returning to during the research phase, and ultimately was why I chose this particular topic and title. In the stray sod narratives of Irish folklore, there is an ever-present quiet terror in the knowledge that there are portals into another, darker world hiding in plain sight; one wrong step and you could be thrust into a land that is not yours. There is an awareness that the surface of our reality is a slippery one."

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by Maria Lax

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Maria Lax.

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Maria Lax