Mending and care are central to my artistic practice. Growing up in Ireland during an ongoing housing crisis, I am drawn to themes of dereliction, repair, and quiet resistance. Working across photography, printmaking, sculpture, installation, and stitch, I explore what it means to care for neglected spaces. Using Cork’s Derelict Sites Register, I photograph derelict buildings, focusing on their silhouettes, textures, and the traces of past lives. I am particularly inspired by the graffiti found on and around these sites, especially messages relating to homelessness and the housing crisis. These writings act as urgent attempts to be heard, drawing attention to displacement, neglect, and inequality while revealing the emotional and political weight these spaces hold within their communities. These images inform my collages, prints, and sculptures. Rather than restore these buildings, I aim to acknowledge their damage and sit with their brokenness. Stitching acts as a metaphor for care and repair, while my glueless sculptures echo the precarity of shelter and the fragility of the home. Through material experimentation and layered processes, my work invites reflection on space, memory, and care, suggesting that even small gestures of repair can carry social and emotional significance.