This exhibition was held in the Letrim Design House and the brief was to respond to consider place and our connections to place.

My piece was made as a backpack with an attached torch that viewers could use to look inside. There were two small leather eye-holes on the front - one for looking, the other to shine the torch through.

Inside was a miniature felted scene, made from Shetland wool (with a tiny bit of merino for the green.)

Here is what I had written about it:

When I was a young adult, myself and my father took up walking the way-marked trails of Ireland, carrying on our backs the provisions we needed for several days at a time and camping en route. We often got soaked and developed blisters from our sub-standard walking gear, but the places we visited were beautiful: high, open, wild places with incredible views, and quiet, secluded woods, mossy and dark with tricking streams. This piece is a tribute to that time.