Music by: Magnus Ferguson

Voice Audio Recording: Sarah Kearney

Location: “Metaphor & Making & Mysticism” conference and exhibition, O’Connell House, Boston College, 2019

Project Description: This 3-channel digital projection and installation is part of Simone Kearney's ongoing investigation of the Irish landscape of her home, as well as her interest in fluidity as a way to think about ambiguity and the shapeshifting nature of identity. This piece comprises footage of the artist’s native landscape - specifically the coastal region of West Cork in Ireland. She combined footage of sea, sky, and cave, flooding and converging in similar tones and textures, as a project that thinks through fluidity as it relates to the thinking of St Jon Scotus of Eriugena - a philosopher denounced by the Church as a heretic nature mystic. The project uses Eruigena’s notion of “deus currens” or the “running god” to showcase the ways the elements are in a dim flux of shifting borders - outside of namable categories.