My work explores long-life trauma, displacement, and loss of identity that was bestowed on many children of Ireland's dark secret past, who were stigmatized, demoralized, and denied the basic human rights to their identities that were concealed for most of their lives through inhuman decisions made by the hierarchy of our state which continues to be an ongoing battle for many.
Through the use of a mixed medium of paper mache technique, dyed fabric, hand-painted maps, Twigs from fallen trees, and acrylic paint mixed with fragments of wildflowers and clay which were sourced from my return to the site of the mother and baby home where I began my own journey of abandonment. A book made of recycled materials that depicts reflections of a stolen childhood. The wildflowers show the strength and durability of the many who have had to find their own way in life with any connections to family roots severed.