Irish Crossings
![Sunlight hitting the ocean](/sites/sculpturewoods.wwu.edu/files/styles/image_with_description/public/2022-09/irish-crossings-lead-in-photo_orig.jpg?itok=RdcCLTcF)
"I was awarded the Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship 2012, in Ballycastle County Mayo, on the northwest shore of Ireland. I took my boat jig and all my supplies and relied on the Irish landscape to provide me with all my materials. Each boat was given to Irish friends."
~ Ann Morris
![Declan's Boat](/sites/sculpturewoods.wwu.edu/files/2022-08/declan-s-boat.jpg)
Declan's Boat
I found this mystery material wrapped in sand on the beach. I washed and stretched it over a cane hull, stitched it onto the cane, then stained the cane to blend.
![Johnny's Boat](/sites/sculpturewoods.wwu.edu/files/2022-08/johnnysboat.jpg)
Johnny's Boat
Made from the first seaweed collected, with the thick strands for the boat hull, and thin strands interwoven.
![Parchment Boat](/sites/sculpturewoods.wwu.edu/files/2022-08/ParchmentBoat.jpg)
Parchment Boat
I gave this boat to the Ballinglen Foundation for their permanent collection. Parchment pieces were stitched together and stretched over the cane hull.
![Terry's Hydrangea Boat](/sites/sculpturewoods.wwu.edu/files/2022-08/TerryHydrangeaBoat.jpg)
Terry's Hydrangea Boat
I found this dried pink seaweed on the beach. After making the hull with the seaweed, I attached tissue paper and then applied hydrangea flower leaves.
![Terry's Net Boat](/sites/sculpturewoods.wwu.edu/files/2022-08/Terry%27sNetBoat.jpg)
Terry's Net Boat
I found a ball of black and white net on the beach, washed it and separated it into one long strand on the floor. I twisted the length and wove it into black seaweed hull.