• THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT WE SEE and WHAT WE ARE AWARE OF •
The INTERTIDAL Project delves into how a MEMORY forms when a person is impacted by a place. The unforgettable experience leaves an IMPRINT upon them both. Each ensuing encounter etches a line of memory into a MAP of time like geological STRATA. Growing conscious of the depth of these memories can reveal the unfolding of time.
TIDAL BLOCK
HOW CAN I SEE ALL OF THE TIDAL LEVELS AT ONCE?
Taking one landscape photograph wasn’t compelling to me, but the drastic expanse in the tidal levels was. The question arose: How can I express the magnitude of tidal change here all at once?
It took two years to find the answer and another two years to create the TIDAL BLOCK picture. My efforts unveiled a singular day—one that could never exist but allowed me to see the cumulative memories of tidal strata simultaneously.
TIDAL BLOCK 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 BLOCK STRATA picture to relay the depth of our experience together.
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 from 2019 to the present.
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?” My omnipresent shadow followed me in these risks, perching on unreachable cliffs and leaving ghost traces in my wake.
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. I then washed the vellum in the water, letting my thoughts go as the ocean left its own signature in reply.
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. Echoing the “Return Location Attempt” string map, I crafted a unique version solely focused on Wild Moor Point.
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. The SAND TIDES STRATA work is crafted from seventy-two days of images taken over four years exposing what lies beneath the sand we so often take for granted.
SAND IMPRINT
YOU SEE THE RIPPLE NOT THE STONE
I documented lapping waves on beaches while the ocean etched new imprints into the stones’ changing landscape. The water sketched the rocks with unique strokes, building a masterpiece of its own while I honored their harmonious collaboration, leaving only my footprint signature behind.
INTERTIDAL PROJECT FILMS
The Intertidal Project film illustrates the primary project themes and their respective works enabling the viewer to experience the evolution and expansion behind my long-term obsessive endeavor.
The Tidal Block film explores the impetus, creation and evolution of the cornerstone “Intertidal Project” work “Tidal Block I” while ultimately revealing its secret meaning.
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. After amassing hundreds of pictures, I built color fields that convey our shared awe of and unconditional surrender to nature’s unflinching pattern of time.
SUNSET STRATA
ONE SUNSET IS NEVER ENOUGH
Over four years I shot over 50,000 images of sunsets at my favorite beach spot. A myriad of factors gave each one a signature chromatic spectrum. Using thousands of sequential frames, I created maps of sunset strata, hoping to combine individual memories of cherished sunsets into one shared moment.
INTERTIDAL PROJECT SHORT FILMS
BEHIND THE CURTAIN…
When the scope of the Intertidal Project far exceeded my expectations, I felt compelled to craft a string map breaking down the entire project to encompass the spectrum and depth of the work. The interconnection between the project’s pillars and components crystalized into a coherent vision
The Project Elements—Imprints, Echoes, Tidal Block, Strata, Twilight, and Traces—embody the thematic cornerstones of the Intertidal Project—MEMORY, IMPRINT, MAPPING, and STRATA. They all intertwine and circumnavigate in harmony, like the moon’s cycle around the Earth inducing the tides.