The Long Pause: Ecology of Ruins I

Lindsay LeBlanc works with glass as a way of understanding the places she moves through and lives alongside. Engaging with landscapes both visually and materially, LeBlanc works with the atmosphere they carry, the way growth gathers, what is discarded there, what survives there, and how time behaves there. Making becomes a way of paying close attention to those ecosystems and to her own evolving relationship with them.

LeBlanc's current work explores a blanket bog in Kiltyclogher, Leitrim, on the border between the Republic and the North. One of the oldest living systems on the land, it preserves what it takes in and acts as a form of memory, in ways that a person arriving from elsewhere can feel before they can name. In The Long Pause, a four-room installation, LeBlanc explores the land as 'ruin' - a site of strange continuity rather than an ending, entangled with trailers, axles, buckets, bottles and jars. Through reclaimed materials, foraged glass, sculpture, sound, the moving image, and archival research, the work traces what gathers, survives, and changes through process, pressure, and time. Across the archive, landscape, immersion, and making, discarded things appear not as inert remains but as active worlds in transformation, inhabited, entangled, and uncannily alive.