The Giants Causeway, located in the picturesque countryside of Northern Ireland, inspired my final year project. Firstly, I was struck by the sheer scale of the natural phenomenon. Hidden behind hills and small, bendy lanes you finally walk around one last corner and there it is, sprawled before you, the mass collection of iconic hexagonal columns that has made the Causeway the monument for which it is known worldwide.
Taking time to just sit with the landscape around me gave me pause. I was captivated by the obvious beauty of it (which was helped by the lucky coincidence that I had visited on a day that had the sunshine of a spring day in Spain), but also the age of the site. The Columns where created millennia ago by volcanic activity, but how many generations of Irish locals and travelers to the shores of Antrim had stumbles upon the site? Of course there as many legends and myths created to explain the irregular landscape but none of those interested me as much as the truth, which was that I was just another transient being visiting this permanent landscape.