RETURN LOCATION STRING MAP
“SIX YEARS AND COUNTING…”
My love of string maps grew from watching crime movies and TV shows in my childhood. Upon deciding to recapture my desired locations, I finally had a reason to craft my own. My current eight-foot string map tracks all my return visits to twenty locations slated for future TIDAL BLOCK prints.
TIDAL STRATA
EVEN WATER NEEDS A MAP
I returned to Wild Moor Point forty times over the next four years to create the TIDAL BLOCK picture. Fascinated with the accumulation of time, I crafted the TIDAL STRATA picture to relay the depth of our experience together.
TIDAL BLOCK STRATA
TO SIMPLIFY IS COMPLICATED
Crafting the TIDAL BLOCK piece proved that making work look simple is far more complex than it appears. TIDAL BLOCK STRATA reveals traces of 40 days of tidal imprints painstakingly assembled to create a single landscape...
SHADOW TRACES
WHY IS SHE FOLLOWING ME?
However, once the landscape became a part of me, unvisited locations began calling my name like sirens across rocky divides. My incessant question remained, “Can I get out there?”
INK TRACES
“MEMORY IS MORE INDELIBLE THAN INK”
My writing about the expanding bond between the place and me evolved organically. An ordinary journal would not allow us to write together. I began mapping our encounters on vellum, scrawling in ink across the pages.
SAND STRATA
WHAT LIES BENEATH
After many years photographing Sea Pine Beach, I coined the phrase “sand tides” to explain the phenomena I’d witnessed there. Depending on the season—and the aggression of climate change—the sand height can change fifteen feet in a year.
TIDAL BLOCK STRING MAP
EVERY END IS A NEW BEGINNING
Upon completion of the first Tidal Block a visual representation was essential to convey the complexity of the process, and the years needed to collect the necessary components.
SUNSET STRATA
ONE SUNSET IS NEVER ENOUGH
Over four years I shot over 50,000 images of sunsets at my favorite beach spot. Using thousands of sequential frames, I created maps of sunset strata, hoping to combine individual memories of cherished sunsets into one shared moment.
TWILIGHT MEMORY
THE MOMENT OF DESCENT
The sunset and the tides are universal constants in life. Realizing this, I photographed the sunsets in the same location nightly just minutes before the sun vanished beneath the horizon.
SPLASH IMPRINTS
THE WATER ETCHES A MAP
While religiously photographing the same stretch of coastline, years of observation taught me how the water painstakingly carves rocks by the force it inflicts upon them.
SAND IMPRINTS
YOU SEE THE RIPPLE NOT THE STONE
I documented lapping waves on beaches while the ocean etched new imprints into the stones’ changing landscape.
