Annabelle in Éire

A photographic symphony

“Alive, aware, in awe. 
Before the grandeur of it all.” 
Nightwish, Endless form most beautiful

For 60 million years, the hexagonal columns of the Giant’s Causeway have risen. Not for praise, but because creation is its own liturgy. When I first saw the magnificent landscapes of such a magical place, the lyrics echoed in my mind: “Alive, aware, in awe“.

Here was a truth written in basalt: 

We are fleeting witnesses to a world that is bound to outlive, outbuild, and outshine us.

My photographs frame this paradox. Human silhouettes lost in the immensity, barely shadows against the Causeway’s geometry. We are visitors to a stage where nature enacts its slow, self-contained autobiography. 

These formations are evolution’s sheet music.

Layer by layer, note by note, they compose themselves without conductor.

Like the Earth, my artistic path is a work of iterations.

I create, erase, and start over, chasing a form of perfection that seems out of my reach. Victim of my impatience and doubts, craving approbation from figures that will never notice, I forget the true essence of creation:

Being oneself. Showing vulnerability. Offering our most sincere confession. 

The rocks do not apologize for their fractures. Then why should I?

Nightwish’s words remind me: beauty is not a destination, but a becoming. Every discarded frame, every reshoot, is a page in a larger story.

My story may never finish, but must still be written. 

Meanwhile, I shall remember this:

“From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful
and most wonderful have been and are being, evolved” 
Nightwish, Greatest show on Earth