I was cycling home from work one night down Esmonde Street when I saw a skip outside a closed office, and, as is my wont, stopped to examine the contents to see if they were worth photographing. I remember it being very cold and the street was deserted. I was already in the process of moving out of Gorey forever and so each evening was part of a countdown to the final one… What first caught my eye was the grey metal object in the centre - a definite face - but as I looked the textures and colours around it I found them very beautiful. So I brought back my proper camera the following morning and took a few shots of it, out of which I constructed the image above from the photograph below. My initial impression was of a drunken robot who’s passed out in a rubbish dump, so I gave it the title ‘a momentary cessation of unhappiness’ (taken from Bertrand Russell) as it seemed to fit rather nicely.  This image has a special place in my heart as it’s the last industrial image I made before I permanently moved to Limerick.