A Stone’s Throw
(2025)

In early 2025, I returned to Donegal, Ireland, the place where my grandfather was born, this time with my son. I swam at the beach where my father played as a child, climbed the hill where my ancestors once worked the land, and peeked into the ruined house overlooking the ocean where my great-grandmother lived.

The spiral surfaced as the guiding symbol for A Stone’s Throw, woven through Irish mythology, representing the cycle of life, birth and renewal. A familiar shape found in our fingerprints or the curve of a shell, relating to continuity and return, with patterns that repeat but are never quite the same.

‘A stone’s throw’ refers to something just within reach, evoking, for me, the tension between proximity and distance, as a person with roots far from home. It also recalls my son’s newfound glee for throwing stones or shells into every possible Irish river, lake or ocean.

The collection is formed from silver wire in varying weights. The motions of coiling and twisting became a kind of meditative ritual, repetitive, shifting.

A Stone’s Throw is available to purchase here.

Photography by Samuel Alexander Petráš.