Marian O’Donnell:

A thing to see: a place to be

This sculpture is a celebration of the rich history of the bog-lands of Lough Boora, and inspired by the bog landscape. It consists of a series of intersecting circles of different sizes on different levels. Part of it is set into the ground in a series of three ring shaped hollows, through which runs a stepped circular path, providing the viewer with a variety of platforms and differing perspectives from where the world can be viewed. A section of one circle forms a raised wall made up of a representative variety of materials, which form the bog. The bog itself is a cycle of continuous transformation, from the death of the trees, to their metamorphosis into peat, to the cutting of turf, to the new cycle of life now beginning: the unspoiled bogs are being preserved, and the cutaway bogs are being reclaimed for agricultural and leisure use. The circles represent a life cycle of the bog and of the human interaction with it, while the path, with its differing perspectives, models the flow of time, which brings an ever-changing scene with it.

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