As part of a series of images responding to the stone ring forts scattered around Ballycastle, "Threshold," expresses the feeling of standing on the edge of a portal – a way forward. Often the only evidence of a ancient dwelling or structure to remain is a doorstep or the post and lintel of a doorway or entranceway and I found many such stones at various sites around the village and on travels further afield in Mayo. To be standing on the threshold is to be at the beginning and this work is also a metaphor for the moment of leaving the old and embracing the new.          - Julie Bradley