I recorded a voice over for Anamesis (2008) at Lotus Films. It was an exciting process. As an artist using video as my main medium, I have on occasion performed for the camera - however these experiments proved to be merely sketches. Performing for sound rather than the camera was kind of exhilarating. The first reading of the story was actually quite awful, the second was a bit better. By the third and fourth take, a voice came from within and whoever was speaking certainly wasn't me. Was I actually acting? (anyone who knows me, knows that I mumble sometimes and I am softly spoken) This voice was clear, direct and kind of frightening. Frightening like when you are asleep and you answer your mobile phone and an alien voice literally comes out of you - and then you hang up because you realize you ARE actually asleep.

My voice does not sound as terrifying as the boy in The Shining but simply does not sound like me - which is only a good thing. I also realised that my pronounciation is awful. I may attend some elecution lessons.

Thanks to Simon Flangan - we still have some work to do.

Covered Road (2005) has been invited to take part in Passengers - a group exhibition on the theme of journey curated by a multi-disciplinary team of staff members from the Waterford Regional Hospital. Covered Road has been screened in many diverse places from The Brattle Theatre, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts to being installed as a single channel video installation at Witness, Studio 6, Temple Bar Galleries, Dublin. This is its first screening in a hospital and on a LCD Monitor. What I find interesting about the exhibition is that the curatorial group are hospital staff from all backgrounds - occupational therapy, mid-wifery, admin, catering and household services - who also had the support of Waterford Healing Arts Trust.

Nurse Grace Staunton (Out Patients Department) impression of Covered Road evokes her own memories of the past and is an example of the research I am currently doing on anamnesis:

They made me smile all Winter - Winter is sadly still here - however I had to stop watching the show as it was becoming an unhealthy addiction - laughter and laziness. I have ticket number 13 to see them perform in The Olympia. What is even more sadder, is that the gig is not on until September.