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‘UNWANTED GENES ON A DNA SPIRAL’: Irish Times interview with Cathy Fitzgerald, 2004

(detail) Title: Unwanted genes on a DNA spiral.  18cm x1.5m   From the Hollywood Forest Story Archive: early art and science explorations by Cathy Fitzgerald, created at Hollywood, Carlow, Ireland materials: Spruce twigs, wild weed flowers, copper wire artwork Digital print, limited edition of 20, 18cm x1.5m, laminated on board, matt coated finish Limited edition…Read more ‘UNWANTED GENES ON A DNA SPIRAL’: Irish Times interview with Cathy Fitzgerald, 2004

Irish Times – Eco Blogs: “I love the story of ‘the little wood that could’. Hope lots of people get to know it.”

I was honoured that my ‘Hollywood Forest Story’ was one of several eco-blogs featured in 🇮🇪 The Irish Times today!

Haumea Ecoversity

Above: a comment shared on twitter by Irish architect Helena Fitzgerald 3/5/2020. Image from within Hollywood forest, looking out to the wider world – from The Hollywood Forest blog by Cathy Fitzgerald.

‘uplifting and insightful writing, and images to delight the eye’ –

‘Getting Out into Nature with a Good Blog’, Paddy Woodworth, The Irish Times, 3 May 2020

I was honoured that my ‘Hollywood Forest Story’ was one of several eco-blogs featured in 🇮🇪 The Irish Times today!

I was also delighted to be in the company of others’ important work in this article – those who have long sought to raise appreciation and awareness for the wonder and plight of the living world. US author David George Haskell’s Song of the Trees (2017) is a favourite book of mine (the last book my late mother gifted to me) and I much admire Director of the Irish…

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The Hollywood Forest Story in Ireland, Aotearoa New Zealand and The Irish Times

What is the purpose of art? We might put a potentially wise response to that question this way: Art has the same purpose all other activity has, namely to further the conditions of life, or to cultivate the whole of life onward. This cultivation of life is a "mental" process, and thus the world has…Read more The Hollywood Forest Story in Ireland, Aotearoa New Zealand and The Irish Times