These projects were borne of a desire to find three different ways for members of Cork’s Queer community to be represented in civic, public space, without having to put their own bodies on the line. In this particular work, a campaign asked people to anonymously tick an online box if they wanted to be represented in the mass of lights that would appear in public representing Cork’s Queer community. In a time where there is increasing political hostility toward our communities, this particular work celebrates our community’s mass by grouping our flashing symbolic selves together. We twinkle and blink in grouped polyrhythms, coming in and out of sync with one another, just like we do in real life: where our individuality manifests; yet when grouped, we are a force. So much in common, yet such a spectrum of difference. Diversity is a strength, and this winking, blinking, beaconing constellation of LGBTQIA++++ people appears, here. We… are. We began with 843 persons who had ticked a box online. However, passers-by asked us to add the in to the work. We finished this bit of the project with 857 lights at Atlantic Pond.

For full information about the project, dates of showings, and what’s next, visit its dedicated website, queerappearcork.com.

Showings were in Bell’s Field, Cork City 17 April 2026; Bishop Lucey Park, 27 April 2026; and at Atlantic Pond, Marina Park, 2 May 2026.