Wetland cross section

Wetland cross section. 2020.

The image is really about how the coast arranges itself into bands. Deep water, surf, scrub, mudflat, each layer has its own colour and texture, stacked like a cross section of the shoreline. Seen from above, that everyday edge between land and sea starts to feel more like a painting, or a diagram, than a literal place.

All the little pools and dark patches in the lower half read as marks on a canvas as much as traces of tides and seasons. It is an environmental picture, but instead of pointing to a single subject, it lets the viewer drift along the frame and notice how many different systems are sharing this narrow strip of ground.

8.8 mm • f/2.8 • 1/2500 sec • ISO 100