Do You Know What You Saw?

Mixed media with slide projection of 27 scenes and musical soundtrack

Installation Douglas Hyde Gallery 2, Dublin

Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art

Scenes from Do You Know What You Saw?

Each 24cm x 36cm. Gouache on paper. 2004

Installation Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Do You Know What You Saw? is based around a journey the artist made to see a performance of Wagner’s Parsifal in Bayreuth when he was 19 and a more recent retracing of that journey. Working from memory, the artist made a series of paintings relating to the experience…The title of the work is taken from a line in the opera, which describes the disarray of a brotherhood of monks who guard the Holy Grail, and tells the tale of Parsifal, a simple innocent who eventually saves them through his quest for wisdom and compassion. 

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin