As Above, So Below

‘As ABove, So Below’ depicts the six-fingered girl from the legendary city of Cill Stuifin, said to be under the waters in Liscannor Bay, close to the Cliffs of Moher. Prophecy says a girl with six-fingers from the Liscannor area will find the lost key to the city and unleash a tsunami that will change the coast of the Clare and Connaught.

Featured in the TG4 documentary Cill Stuifin (2026). The six-fingered girl has long acted as a metaphor for my connection to art. the paintbrush is my sixth finger, my power to affect my world.

Watercolour on paper, Private Collection.

Link to ‘What Lies Beneath’ by Niall MacMonagle, Irish Times Newspaper:

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/what-lies-beneath-as-above-so-below/35519949.html

Exhibited: Irish Arts Center New York (2017), University of Galway (2016)