Disintegration

Today, much of the structure lies beneath the water, scattered across the seabed, where it forms an artificial reef that supports a thriving ecosystem.What remains above the surface are timeworn shafts of corroded steel – fractured, eroded, yet unexpectedly elegant.

Once part of a unified structure, they now stand isolated and diminished.Their slow transformation speaks quietly of time itself – elusive and ungraspable, moving steadily beyond reach.

In October 2024 I returned repeatedly to this shoreline, working in the stillness of night and waiting through the quiet hours for first light to emerge over the Arabian Sea. In those moments, standing alone on the shore, there was a profound sense of presence – a feeling of being suspended between darkness and day, where time itself seemed momentarily held in place.

This work is a meditation on impermanence and change. It reflects a simple understanding: that as structures erode and fade, something is not lost, but transformed.

Relentlessly shaped by wind, tide and salt, the pier continues its slow dissolution – fragmenting, corroding, and disappearing, yet retaining a quiet dignity.

When I return – if I return – there may be no visible trace remaining. Its gradual disappearance feels like a fitting reflection on our own fragile relationship with time.