Inner Seer T-Shirt

Drawing by Martin Shaw.
Hand-printed in Devon by Field System gallery.
100% organic cotton.

Cista Mystica is delighted to present this Inner Seer limited edition in collaboration with Field System, inspired by Martin Shaw’s Inis Oirr (Inner Seer) exhibition.

Inis Oirr (Inner Seer)

In the middle of last winter writer and artist Martin Shaw braved a three-day storm to go pilgrimaging on the smallest of the Aran Islands, Inis Oirr (Inner Seer)…

“I am on the Aran Islands. Next stop is Hy-Brazil that mystical isle, and far beyond that the Eastern Abenacki, Pequawket, Mohawk, Pawtucket, Shawnee, Meskwaki. Today all I see is an unimaginably vast stretch of water ahead, with a great sheaf of limestone under my pale bare feet. I am singing in bad-Irish, with lots of stops and starts. I am trying to become a real human being.

On the island I was. Ten days in regular-type time.
But these were strayed-days; a flinty, yellowed type of time – stretched out for a year or three. On the island I am a blow-in, what we call a grockle where I am from.

See where it leads you, they said. That was the only plan. Just over the waters are the mountains of Connemara, ancestral ground. I love the drama of a big old slope, but the fog’s put paid to any eyeballing. The island of Inis Oirr sounds like Inis Sheer and locals pronounce it Inner-Seer. I’m saying nothing…”