Spoken word

The following are examples of fragmentary vignettes I create. The scenes relay psychological encounters with landscape, often in the company of loved ones, companions and ‘others.’ Prose poetry, ambient electronica and minimalism are mixed to create fleeting moments of ambiguous time and place. Experimental explorations of symbolism, myth and allegory in the context of a techno-scientific age. © 2024 Méadhbh O’Connor. All rights reserved.

Sky Walkers, 2024. See the commissioner’s page by pressing the button below. Commissioned as part of the Nature and Place initiative by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, Ireland. Please also see my dedicated project page.

‘The Physicist,’ presented here as part of the overall project alt space (~ 2023) revisits a conversation with a physicist friend and places it in a surreal landscape–a recollection that moves around memory and transforms to the imagined, juxtaposing analytic and poetic understanding. The poem makes subtle allusions to the mystery of quantum mechanics, and of the harnessing of these phenomena in modern technology. It comes from deeply personal experiences of the creativity that can spark from such conversations between artists and scientists.