Tidelands

Here, light behaves differently – thickened by air and water, softened and scattered into a luminous, shifting presence. It is something that seems to rise from the landscape itself, fleeting and atmospheric, never quite still. This quality exists within a meeting point: where the restless Atlantic Ocean meets the quieter, brackish waters of Mecox Bay. A threshold between energies – constant movement set against stillness.

In the spring of 2019 I returned to this shoreline repeatedly, arriving in darkness and waiting for the slow emergence of first light.These solitary hours, spent between night and day, became a process of observation – allowing the landscape to reveal itself gradually.

Working in this way, time seemed to soften. Attention sharpened. Small, elemental changes – light shifting across water, waves marking and erasing the sand – became the focus.

The pictures created during this period are not descriptions of a place, but reflections of an experience. An exploration of presence, and of the subtle space between stillness and movement, light and time. There were moments when it felt as though everything was suspended – held briefly between what had passed and what was about to arrive.