Around the World, Around the World.

This is a piece I worked on last week on the theme of Irish emigration. It is a comment on the scattering of the Irish far and wide and how their influence permeates each external country's culture to some extent. This took a loooooong time, mainly due to the amount of research required. The background is various travel paraphernalia, such as passports, letters and so on, layered over imagery of emigrants. The countries themselves are cut out patterned card and hand drawn on each country is the wildlife / musical instrument / traditions etc associated with each one. A shamrock has also managed to make it's way into each country, with the travel lines showing the route taken from Ireland to each country. So now.