Evidence of Esus

The evidence of Esus is a shed full of colourful paintings, odd items, costumes and moving sculptures situated in a remote place in a wild West Cork hide out. To get there in itself is a sort of other worldly experience: through small seeminly one lane roads, up and down a track and through a black thorn tunneled path. Everyone who arrives there is already changed before they even enter the rough, wooden, large, tin roofed building. Once inside its hard to know where to look because you are surrounded by images which seem childlike and disturbing in their strangeness all at once. Messages scrawled across pages of scrap paper strewn about as if discarded after completion. It appears from their contents that Esus is planning to move out to the cities but in what form it is hard to know. It is likely that Esus is a shape shifter and a trickster to boot. Like what's the idea of putting floor dust in a display bag and calling it "all that remains" as if this were some priceless gold flakes or the DNA to life? Or the shiney stainless steel teapot on a pedestle that is an old speaker with a label "perfection" written on it? what about the fake fish bait in a posh watch box or the barbie parts sticking out of a pink heart container? The place is teeming with everyday objects that have been combined in odd ways to create something new. while sometimes at least aesthetically pleasing always sightly offsetting. And I haven't even begun to describe the paintings yet.