This project was inspired by VisitScotland’s ‘Year of Coasts and Waters’ for 2020. I started this work last year, and planned more for this year, but for obvious reasons, things have been restricted and I have made little progress beyond a handful of initial images. However, my aim is to continue this work beyond 2020 - it will very likely take several years.
My plan is to make a series of photographs at a range of scales that capture the particular of one coastal location in southeastern Scotland, but which may speak of the generalities of coasts everywhere around the world. Where the land meets the sea, and the mysteries that attach to the latter, has long inspired artists of all genres. I know I am no different and am equally drawn to coasts for all that they offer - mystery, awe, spectacle, wonder, peace - and fear. My photographs represent my own response to the physiology and biology of coasts, the results of the never-ending interaction between water and solid, driven by tides, winds, the weather, the seasons. I do not have anything to say, just pictures to present for anyone who wishes to look at them, that they may also ponder on their own experience of coasts, and what they find there, physical or metaphysical.