Lámh na Fáistine (The Hand of Prophecy) utilises a carved wooden table as a site of myth and exchange. Drawing on an old coastal prophecy, a six-fingered hand holds a key and pulls away from a book containing fragmented Irish text and symbols. Seaweed gathers around the book and stretches toward the hand, preserving and entangling, as if the act of retrieval is both protected and resisted.

Beneath, a skeleton rests on a narrow shelf, marking a past history and extending the work across time. Organic materials suggest submersion and slow decay, where meaning shifts through erosion and touch. The work lingers in suspension, where knowledge is held but never fully grasped, and where prophecy persists in fragments, carried between memory and loss.

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