Inis Oírr Panorama in four directions
On the island of Inis Oírr, the smallest of the Aran Islands on the west coast of Ireland, I stand at a point on the southern edge, where the island meets the Atlantic Ocean.
I stand facing north. I bend over forwards and describe the ground on which I am standing.
While I continue my descriptions I slowly straighten myself up, carrying on until I am describing the sky above my head.
This process is completed in the direction of the four points of the compass.
The four descriptions have, because of this, the same beginning and end.
I have learnt these descriptions by heart, each one lasting about 7 minutes.
I can perform this process again wherever I am, both in English as well as in a Dutch version.
As the beginning and end of the four descriptions are the same, the piece has a strong relationship to poetry, its reading has a certain rhythm because of the repetitions, becoming as it were a poem in four verses.