APRIL 2007

Easter Sunday - attended the Hotel Ballymun (top floor Clarke Twr - awaiting demolition) by invitation from a participating local artist. It was a great opportunity to take some digital photos at a level 5 floors higher than would have been possible during the 25years I lived in Connolly Twr, if only I had the advantages of a digital camera back then.
I still feel queasy about the exploitation of artists and the manner in which public funding has to be accessed, even more so if reminded of a particularly notorious Irish patron/benefactor of the arts.
Unfortunately, with the low level of education, and the near-absence of real political awareness in Ireland, there is little to be optimistic about right now, we must wait for further growth of political constituencies via the Internet.
That's where optimism may come from - nobody can predict the cumulative results of that which is already occurring in cyberspace!