Rooted in community engagement, the research phase builds relationships with those who navigate the waters surrounding Dursey island: Island inhabitants, farmers, sea-faring families, and tour operators in order to understand the lived rhythms and temporal patterns that structure island life.

Incorporating older systems of timekeeping in which astronomy guided both maritime navigation and agricultural activity. Lunar cycles, stellar movement, and seasonal shifts historically read through sources such as Moore’s Almanack are approached as temporal technologies that organised labour, travel, and anticipation, offering cyclical models of time that sit in tension with linear, automated systems.

At its core lies Bull Rock Lighthouse, automated in 1991 and now home to a vast gannet colony, serving as a powerful metaphor for technological transition and altered human presence.

The work opens a dialogue between environmental ethics and situated knowledge systems, collaborating with Irish marine scientists and maritime experts to examine how sites once governed by rotational labour, watch keeping, and repetitive routines have been reconfigured through automation and ecological succession.

Through field recordings and remote monitoring, the lighthouse’s traditional outward gaze is reversed, transforming it into a site of durational attention and ecological listening.