A Well at The Bottom of the Sea

Clare Milledge’s work re-examines contemporary environments with a focus on our engagement with ecology through art, in particular through the use of the historical figure of the artist-shaman. Working with fieldwork as her primary methodology she collects, re-organises, transforms and re-presents recordings, information and material gathered on ecological surveys and site visits. Her research output takes the form of public installation environments that variously incorporate glass paintings, textile works, costumes, sets, collaborative experimental sound and performance.

The following poem has been compiled
from research notes by Clare Milledge:

You can hear it read by Clare in the Stories in the Landscape, conversation with Clare Millege.

A for ailm
Anamain and brethugud
Breaking open of poems and diligent teaching
Cethri srotha d.c .icsi
Co.r
Comgne and genelach
Dichetal do chennaib
Dychymig dychymig
E for eadha
Enech
Fele and innruccus
Fili
Filid
Fourteen streams of scholarship
Grand-daughter of the sea
Great knowledge and chanting
Great knowledge of enlightenment
History and genealogy
I for idho
Idna beoil and foglomma
Idna l.me and lanamnais
Imb.s forasnai
Imb.s greine
Immas and dichetal
Metre and judgement
Morrigan
O for onn
Ollamh
Ollave
Palm-knowledge of enlightenment
Poetry likes making patterns
Purity of the hand and partnership
Purity of the mouth and learning
Rakali
Recital from the finger tips
Reciting from heads
Science and integrity
Seer
S.nann
Spiaire
Sruth
Sweet cauldron of the five trees
Taken the heart out of a good field
The well of the generous woman
Teinm laeda and ler forcetail
Tree alphabet
U for ura