Pandemic experience
Trying to hold steady through lockdown Restrictions easing and vaccination
Geraldine McClure
The Music of What Happens In the poem 'Song', the poet Seamus Heaney references Celtic mythology and “the music of what happens”; experiential moments, the beauty and energies of nature, spiritual awareness. In this work, I hoped to express moments and feelings that I could not articulate verbally; instinctive responses to things observed and experienced. In a time when personal freedoms were restricted due to a pandemic and when anxiety was often present, finding a temporary peace in the moment was welcome. Nature’s beauty, light and shade, shapes and patterns, the enchantment of colour with absorption in the moment provided a sense of freedom and a form of mindfulness. The freedom of expression of these moments, spontaneously created, fulfilled a need to experience beauty, serenity and poetry in a time of turmoil.