Environmental artist Sean Corcoran’s biography could be titled A Rake’s Progress. Recently he visited the strand that fronts US president Donald Trump’s property in Doonbeg and under the watchful eye of the property’s security personnel, used his rake and calligraphic skill to draw the words “Free Palestine” in the sand.
No death threats followed, unlike his experience after posting images online two years ago of his raked portrait of Greta Thunberg in the sands of Kilmurrin Cove on Waterford’s Copper Coast, just below the home, studio and art gallery, The Art Hand, in Bonmahon, that he shares with his artist wife Miranda.
Earlier this month, he put his rake aside and we sat together in his van to chat, and I looked out at some poor divil in the pouring rain diggi
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