New work...quiet quiet

This work continues where my previous work was interrupted (see the Prairie Long Poems for example on  http://coconutmonkeypress.blogspot.com
In May 2011 I spent a month in Ireland, mostly on the central and southern west coast. Images collected there are being combined with images collected on a trip to the Canadian prairies during the summer of 2009. This piece is called quiet quiet. The two exterior images are views downriver and upriver respectively from the centre of Leam Bridge in Galway, aka The Quiet Man Bridge, as it features in the film starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara c. 1952. The central image is the outdoor Shamrock Drive-In at Killarney, Manitoba in Canada. The piece is approximately 130cm x 40cm (52"x16"), screenprinting and drawing on wood panels, the central image being on steel plate affixed to a wood panel. In the signboard of the drive-in image, I've rearranged some of the letters to suggest the film showing is 'The Quiet M...'

Return of Coconut Monkey Press

After some time, I've decided to get back to this blog with updates...due to my absence, my original blogs* were impossible to access (even the blogosphere is bureaucratic!), but please check back at your leisure for new stuff!
* http://coconutmonkeypress.blogspot.com 

I have found that I cannot edit the posts in 'Coconut Monkey Press'. This photos of the work do not enlarge for viewing as they were originally intended to do - and once did - by clicking on the image; however, if you right-click on the image and choose 'Open in a new tab', the image will open for viewing in a new tab. My apologies for this inconvenience and/or confusion but it is completely out of my control to update any aspect of this older version of my blog.