Calling all Lough-Ine-ologists!

Calling all Lough-Ine-ologists! to collaborate in an art project about Lough Ine and our seas…
Calling all Lough-Ine-ologists young and older who connect with the lough – who swim/dip/float/foot dabble/snorkel/dive/paddle board/kayak/walk around the lough/walk up the hill and view the lough/sit contemplating the lough/picnic beside the lough…
and more connections….
Come and spend approx. 10 minutes (max) and have your breath audio recorded by me.
Come along anytime during open studio at Uillinn
20th May Tuesday 2pm-4.30pm,
22nd May Thursday 2pm-4.30pm,
27th May Tuesday 2pm-4.30pm
I will also be at Lough Ine with my audio recorder Saturdays 17th, 24th, 31st and Sundays 18th, 25th, 1st June from 8am in the morning.
If you would like a special slot external to the times or days and/or would like more information please email: higginssaoirse@gmail.com
Background:
I am developing a collaborative film and future lough art event which explores Lough Ine’s visible and invisible energy in/out/on and around the sea water lough. As part of this I would like to gather all our breaths that connect and encompass the lough metaphorically breathing life into the sea, and the lough breathing life into us. Lough Ine is a magical place and was designated as the first marine protected area in Europe. It used to be a fresh water lough many 100s of years ago but due to sea levels rising it became sea water. It has a unique asymmetric tide rushing into it which provides special habitats for sea creatures and plants to energise and thrive. Marine scientists have been studying the lough for years, benchmarking the changes in its life cycles. e.g UCC marine scientists are researching special sea sponges living in the lough which breathe and filter sea water. On a macro scale, scientist tell us that half of the oxygen available to us has been produced by phytoplankton – this means that every other breath comes from microscopic organisms in the sea in places such as Lough Ine.
We inhale and then we exhale in rhythm with the lough life cycle.
Oxygen is our shared life force giving us energy and power to care for and protect our sea world.
Come and breathe with the sea
An breathing archive of lough Ine energy