Rockfalls, Rivermouths & Ponds

‘Rockfalls, Rivermouths & Ponds’ is like the title suggests, get into the three sections. 

'Rockfalls' is set on the beach at Whale Chine on the Isle of White, where he was originally drawn by the roaring waves but then he was pulled to the trickle sounds from the cliff face behind him. He began to discover the tiny rivulets of particles that occasionally detach themselves from the cliff face and bounce onto the beach below. The more he stood there, the more he began to notice this becoming a frequent thing.

            ‘Rivermouths’ began from a desire to imagine the Earth engulfed by water. The Earth is erased from these photographs, drowned, as two bodies of water become combined, as the stream becomes released and flows into the sea, mirroring a psychological movement when we ourselves become exhausted and give ourselves up to death or something greater than ourselves.

            ‘Ponds’ is a project based upon a small pond which is between two fields and the moor at Woon Gumps in the far west of Cornwall. The shallow saucer was dug out of the ground a few hundred years ago and has continually used by cattle, which with their heavy presence have maintained paths through the gorse and brambles. When they are full, they are like a ‘mirrored disk or an eye reflecting the heavens’ when empty, they are described as ‘craters made by celestial objects crashing into the ground.’