from Alphabet with Dance of Death, Hans Holbein the Younger

 

Chronically cash-strapped, the Emperor [Maximilian I] stimulated contemporary local artists […] to try out new techniques and formats to systematically glorify his rule, to achieve the monumental through cheap woodcut prints, rather than through permanent structures in stone.

from Hans Holbein: The Dance of Death (Penguin Classics), Ulinka Rublack

 

 

it’s interesting to see that the Irish government only ever focussed (sic) on ghost housing estates while forgoing similar identification and record keeping of apartments and commercial units. For example, that map doesn’t list the Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx xx Xxxxxxxx,  a (sic) hotel and apartment building in Xxxxxxxxxxxx, and the commercial development in Xxxxxxxxx / Xxxxxxx. It lists Xxxxxx Xxxxxx xx Xxxxxx Xxxx as substantially complete when it was in reality about ten percent complete. It also doesn’t correctly list the state of the ‘ghost’ segment of the Xxxxxxxxxx Development (Xxxx Xxx).

from Re: Ghost Estates (email), Nicholas Grundy to Eoghan Carrick

 

 

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Satellite images drawn from CNES / Airbus, Infoterra Ltd & Bluesky; Maxar Technologies: Google Earth. All images located in the Republic of Ireland.

 

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Eoghan Carrick is an artist based in Dublin, Ireland. His literary work has appeared or is forthcoming in Banshee, Cyphers, Channel, The Stony Thursday Book, Abridged, Poetry Scotland, Quare Éire Anthology, Minor Literature[s], Swerve, An Áitiúil Anthology and Belfield Literary Review. He was selected for the 2022 Irish Writers Centre National Mentoring Programme and a 2023 DLRCC Emerging Artist Bursary. View a range current and past projects at www.eoghancarrick.com