After spending time in the sacred sites of Loughcrew , and Newgrange, I have been wondering about the meaning of the carvings on the stones. Were they a language of some sort, telling about the purpose of the cairns, did they track the entrance of the sun into the chambers, were they simply a kind of decoration? When I came into my cottage here at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, I found some words scratched onto a heart-shaped slate that a previous tenant had left behind. Lovely that the word is Brave. The word 'courage' comes from coeur, French for heart. Be Brave. What a wonderful motto to begin my residency here. And now I'm in the final few days of the residency and so I'm looking at my work and hoping that I have been brave. In response to the Be Brave carving, I found a Yeats quote about courage. I did a small installation piece down by the lake, carving the quote onto some small slates that I found by the b...