The lovely Lynn took some better photo’s, which can be seen on Sprout’s facebook page

Computers do not work at the same pace as I do and have a tendency to be uncooperative in times of need. Luckily Niamh and Paul, the technical experts arrived. The audio is now edited and pretty much ready but the visuals are another story. I started adding some found images to the video I shot of the bridge so it needs a lot more work. The images are taken from flikr, some of which I used in the past, reworking them and turned into screen prints. I’m still not sure if they will remain in the piece. I need to experiment more with it. The randsom note is done and I’m happy with it. That took longer than I had anticipated too! It was interesting searching through newspapers for particular words and letters or combination’s of letters. The letter j is not very common. I couldn’t find the full word “protect” so used “protest” and covered the s with a c! The reason for the randsom note is that the woman I interviewed “fell” pregnant out of “wedlock” and so was sent to a convent where she gave birth to her daughter. It was 1960′s Ireland when the Catholic Church tried to rule everyone and everything. I have decided the piece will be called “A stone from home” – a line taken from the audio.