Paul McKinley | Péisteanna

"A blood-whorled eye looks fit to swell beyond its lids, at some point seared of their lashes. Its gaze is fixed, but on what strange form? The sight it beholds seems to have engulfed the wet jelly of the cornea—the organ itself will soon be subsumed by the still-mounting vision".

 

In a specially commissioned essay Sue Rainsford continues, " Péisteanna is marked by the chimeric vibrancy that befalls the terrified eye. Dappled light across the bracken, a looming cloud’s darkest crease, a heap of earthworms’ succulent sheen—such ordinary details garner a strange agency in dread’s throes".

 

Responding to a significant literary finding, 'Péisteanna', presented in an Irish building of  European significance, McKinley attempts to convey the psychological charge of this eerie discovery.