I’d Walk from Cork to Larne to See the Forty Shades of Green, 1978
A 320 mile, 14 day photographic walk based on song by Johnny Cash and made into a poster

A 320 mile, 14 day walk from Cork in the South West of Ireland to Larne in the North East of Ireland. The work turns a romantic song about Ireland by Johnny Cash into a real experience, which eschews the picturesque in favor of a more matter of fact depiction of greenness on a journey across Ireland. There is a political undercurrent in the work via the undefined crossing of the border between South and North (contested territory in 1979), which is then confirmed by the inclusion of a British soldier on patrol in the streets of Belfast.

Since I photographed many more than 40 shades of green, I decided to create an additional audio-visual version.