Instruments
Seven working tools for the same subject the paintings are about.
They are accurate, not decorative. The Ogham is real Ogham, the tree calendar is the real calendar, and the solstice is the real solstice — computed, not animated. Elaine built them because she needed them.
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Ogham Transliterator
Your words cut into a stone arris, in the real alphabet.
Ogham is a genuine writing system — twenty letters of notches and strokes cut along the edge of a standing stone, used across Ireland from roughly the fourth century. This transliterates properly, including the letters that have no English equivalent.
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Your Birth Tree
The Celtic tree calendar, read against your birth date.
Thirteen lunar months, each bound to a tree that also names an Ogham letter. Give it a date and it returns the tree, its letter, and what the old lore attached to it.
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Wheel of the Year
Eight festivals, and how far round the wheel today sits.
Samhain, Imbolc, Bealtaine, Lughnasadh and the four solar quarters. The wheel is drawn to real dates, so the position it shows you is the position the year is actually in.
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Petroglyph Studio
Carve spirals and cup-marks under raking light.
Rock art only becomes visible when light strikes it at a low angle. Carve into the surface and move the light across it, the way an archaeologist does at dawn.
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Sacred Beast
Which animal of the old stories is yours.
The salmon, the hound, the raven, the hare. A short set of questions drawn from the Irish cycles rather than from a personality quiz.
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Solstice Simulator
Watch the light enter a passage tomb on the shortest day.
Passage tombs were built to admit the sun on one morning of the year. Move the date and watch the beam travel — or miss — the chamber floor.
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Monogram Illuminator
Your initial, drawn as an insular manuscript letter.
The illuminated initial as the scribes of Kells and Durrow built it: interlace, spiral and the animal head resolving out of the knot.
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These began as research for the paintings
Every one of them started because Elaine needed to understand something before she could paint it. The work they led to is on the wall.