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PART I

TÍR NA NÓG

Depicted by Jack B Yeats - 

In Tír na nÓg (1936)

Searching for the land of eternal youth 

The immortality of clothes. Shearlings and tinsel tweeds, old tapestries,

patchworked and repurposed florals 

loved and lived

Hand-me-downed, found 

Exploration. Bomber satin, open dressed, dressed and distressed 

Liminal bodies caught in-between there and here.

PART II

PONY KID

“I had three fillies, white fillies, that day in Smithfield. I was trying to get sale for them that day so I just rub them up a bit and so you came on the scene like and I was full of hairs like.” 

Realism & mysticism - distilled down to a proposition of garments, placed & misplaced 

Centaur bustles, curly pretend fur 

Sliced knits & sportswear

asphalt grey

masculinities with femininities. 

Lace boiler suits, frills on your tracksuit.

adidasiii. Sporting breed.

PART III

WEIRD SISTERS 

The Cuala Press

Bridled, blinkered. Piercing bits and metal loops.

Hand-cut lace, pierced and pieced back together 

make and mend

Silk taffeta prize ribbon gowns, in peat green. 

Cocktail dresses with grabbed pockets.

Considered in the hand, twisted on the body.

Monster ballgowns.

“In the year of the big wind.”