Todi is home to the painted house of Patrick Ireland (a.k.a. Brian O’Doherty) and Barbara Novack, a true work of contemporary art that conceals deep symbolic meanings. The key to unlocking the enigma is OGHAM, a language extinct for more than 1,200 years, with which the ancient Irish translated the Roman alphabet into lines. Thus, what seemingly appear to be geometric strictures for their own sake turn out to be letters. And the surprises continue when it turns out that behind such a choice, like that of the stage name Patrick Ireland, is the Bloody Sunday of 1972, and the desire to remember the innocent victims of that bloody Sunday.
