Snapshot of a Bog Body  

This work imagines a figure who has returned to their roots, becoming one with the bog itself. Photographed in Moycollen, Galway, the piece captures someone caught in a liminal state of neither fully alive nor entirely gone. Dancing through the landscape with unsettling celebration. Drawing on the tradition of ancient bog bodies preserved in peat, we reverse the narrative: here, the bog is not a grave but a homecoming. The figure runs and moves with ecstatic energy, as if dissolution into the earth is not something to fear but to embrace. Bark replaces flesh, fabric becomes shroud, and the bog transforms into a threshold between states of being.

Directed by Lisa Della Chiesa 
Photographed by Shirah Brennan 2025

BOG BODIES Series 

Costume Designer - @lisadellachiesaartist 
Photographer - @shirberts 
Model - @cormac_adams 
Shoot Assists - @sleephea__d @menace