During the 1 month residency “Rediscovering Location” I explored the city of Cork on foot, starting from the gallery space, covering an area that had the shape of a circle (like a star map). I made chalk drawings on the side walk by connecting old bits of chewing gum stuck on the tiles or tarmac. The drawings looked like star signs, they appeared to be modern archetypes: the fire eater, the equilibrist, the big breasted woman, the hooded man, thunder arm, the woman carrying a heavy weight, the man with the big heart, the man with his head in the clouds, etc.
I drew the map of Cork on the gallery wall and attached a transparent layer over it showing where the drawings were. A “negative” map in the window had small holes pinched on the location where the chewing gum had been found and turned into what looked like a proper star map.
Photo prints of the drawings covered the ceiling, like a modern milky way, turning the world upside down.

The biggest drawing was of a woman crying, her chalk tears flowed all the way down the street into the river running through Cork. During the exhibition the river flooded the city. Visitors who came to see the show remembered things that had happened in the streets I walked through, directly related to the drawings I had made without having any prior knowledge about them.

Basement Project Space/
Art Trail Festival Cork, 2009