Sep 28, 2026 · 22 min · 10 segments
Celtic Blind Date is a collaboration between artists Esyllt Angharad Lewis and Rónán O'Raghallaigh. The artists conducted a series of remote collaborative exchanges between Ireland and Wales, which…
Rónán O'RaghallaighGuest
Esyllt Angharad LewisGuest
When we started the project, every week or every two weeks, we'd have a group meeting.

And in one of the early meetings, Mark talked about the poet C.A. Conrad and how they used rituals to write their poetry.



And the fact that they used to do rituals to write their poetry of all I've really found out inspire in the last few years.

A lot of them are kind of funny, like hopping on one foot or lying in a dark room after drinking a big soup of like a bull soup or with a stone on your belly.

So I've been really inspired by this idea of like making art as a ritual and that it can be fun.
Words to say in the mirror.
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And Yolo Morgan, who came up in our conversations, who was one of these, I suppose, like, modern neo druids one of the first ones and he he invited people to primrose hill in london for a kind of a recreation of a druidic ceremony back in the 17 or 18 hundreds.

And I had coincidentally visited that hill earlier this year, totally coincidentally.

When we started the project, every week or every two weeks, we'd have a group meeting.

And in one of the early meetings, Mark talked about the poet C.A. Conrad and how they used rituals to write their poetry.



And the fact that they used to do rituals to write their poetry of all I've really found out inspire in the last few years.

A lot of them are kind of funny, like hopping on one foot or lying in a dark room after drinking a big soup of like a bull soup or with a stone on your belly.

So I've been really inspired by this idea of like making art as a ritual and that it can be fun.
Words to say in the mirror.
pub, says size.


And Yolo Morgan, who came up in our conversations, who was one of these, I suppose, like, modern neo druids one of the first ones and he he invited people to primrose hill in london for a kind of a recreation of a druidic ceremony back in the 17 or 18 hundreds.

And I had coincidentally visited that hill earlier this year, totally coincidentally.
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