Thin Places - Kerri ni Dochartaigh OCTO To read it is to

To read it is to see the last 500 million years not as an endless expanse of unfathomable time

scentless bright colours none of us needs

Life – an intense juggling act of a demanding job

vision and memory inform one another in this original and illuminating work

Thin Places - Kerri ni Dochartaigh OCTO To read it is toGuardian Kerri n Dochartaigh was born in Derry at the very height of the Troubles. One parent was Catholic, the other Protestant. In the space of a year Kerris family were forced out of two homes and when she was eleven a homemade petrol bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. For families like hers, terror was in the very fabric of the city. In Thin Places, Kerri explores how nature kept her sane and helped her heal, and how we are again allowing