Strandline
Description
If I had to name a favourite activity, then walking on a fine beach following the snaking line of flotsam and jetsam left by the last high tide, scanning and picking through the material for things of interest would rank highly.
I’ve started to see this line as a daily manifestation, almost a drawing, of the absolute maximum pull the moon could manage at the peak of a tide cycle. It’s a kind of record both of the whirling spinning forces of the universe and a forensic measure of both the beauty of nature and the folly of human activity. This link between the macro and the micro has been a constant theme in my work.
My work is informed by regular visits to Mayo, on the west coast of Ireland. There, sandy beaches are called “strands” and the high tide mark is called the “strandline”