Dividing Lines

“On a globe, countries are neatly defined, often in different colours, like pieces in a puzzle. In reality, the land mass is continuous; there are no borders in nature, just transitions. It is people who have divided the world up into different colours, separated by lines on the map. To ‘divide’ land is abstract, it is an artificial construct and perhaps it is also absurd”. Erika Fatland ‘The Border – a journey around Russia’. This quote applies everywhere there are contentious borders artificially imposed on an oblivious landscape, in this instance I am applying it to the borderlands of Ireland and in particular to the country of Donegal in the North West of the country. There is also a book of the project, available for purchase here