Cathal Doran

How long have you owned your favourite thing? Is it something new or something you’ve kept for an extended period? Is the length of time you’ve owned it at all aligned with how much it means to you? We do not decide what we get to keep, we only play a part in it. This short photo series shows the ability of the world to link love, use, and destruction. In spite of the desire to retain something, the natural environment decides whether it can continue to be owned. Whether it’s the swapping of electrons causing metal to slowly turn to oxidized iron dust, the look of your body and skin, or the landscape consuming the things once used to divide it. Something we want to control, to preserve, is not controlled at all. We are just holding on.