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Victor’s
Way Victor’s Way was designed as a contemplation space
for adults between the approx. ages of 28 and 65 who feel the need to take
some quality time out for R&R&R (i.e. rest, recovery & You should feel the urge
to momentarily step out of your philosophic box and into mine, try me on Instagram. The
contemplative stretch of Victor’s Way is the forest path along which the
spiritual wanderer encounters 4 black granite and 3 bronze sculptures, each
one a psychological transformation device representing one of life’s passage phases.
There are also 35 minor sculptures. The sheer size and magnificence of the
sculptures encourage the fully mindful visitor reactivate, indeed regress to
his or her early life capacity for wonder, awe and the exhilaration of yet
unconstrained creative freedom. Victor’s Way took 30 years to complete and install. Thereafter 2 more
sculptures were added, namely the dung-beetle Tiffany, and which
metaphorically buried the garden, indeed the past, and the 18ft 7ins Druid
Finn who extended the boundary of theorizing about Nature as distributed
network of differentiated quantised iterations of a single (thus Monist) Procedure. All the
sculptures were designed in Roundwood after which they were hand cut in a
dedicated workshop in Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu in India by the artists T.
Baskaran and D.V. Murugan.
The burier of dead, the 15 ton black
granite dung beetle Tiffany, rolling the philosopher’s turd, encouraged by the ageing host, Victor All
in all, acquiring the property, design and planning, travelling, production
in stone and bronze, model making, container transportation, heavy gear
installation and so on and on cost shy of a million Euro (over 40 years), not
to mention the unpaid stress. Victor’s Way eventually became the largest and most
sophisticated private sculpture garden in Ireland. On
September 28th 2025,
Victor’s (Mystic)
Way ended, and the
garden was closed permanently to the public. On that day Victor outed himself
as a druid, taking the name Finn, and
withdrew to live out his remaining years as an anchorite. |
