A S C H A N G E A B L E A S T H E T I D E S Photography series & poem.
One photograph, for each of the 65 days spent at sea.
Taken each day at 4pm, as the day drew to a close.
In various locations around the Philippines. 2019.
The mind of man and the ocean both have their storms and their tides
when you can’t see the ocean for the waves be still
all will subside after time
from the heaviest of waves come the calmest of seas
they are one as are you and I
Being stranded without communication from the outside world for months at a time, with three previous strangers, in the middle of the Sulu Sea, is the hardest thing i’ve faced throughout my life. Sometimes I’d find myself bursting into tears whilst swimming around the boat, the vast blue ocean was the one private place I had to let out my emotions. Plunging into its depths each morning was the one thing that made me feel alive. The touch of the water embracing my body the only touch I felt in months.
5 M O N T H S O F R A I N Rainwater, plant pulp paper, resin casts, audio, text. Part of the UOB Degree Show, Grand Parade, Brighton, UK, 2015.
Process Documentation
1 0 0 D A Y S O F R A I N Assorted bottles, rainwater (9th November 2014-16th February 2015). Part of the ‘SHIFT’ exhibition, Grand Parade, Brighton, UK, 2015.
(D A Y 7 6 7 0 - D A Y 7 6 8 1 ) Rainwater, LED lights, acetate, text. 2015.
T A L I S M A N
Bronze & Rainwater from November 9th 2014, 8 × 8 × 3.5cm approx. 2015.
Rainwater from November 9th 2014 had been collected and frozen into a solid block of ice. A mould was then carved into the ice. Hot wax was poured into the mould and as it came into contact with the ice, the ice began to crack and the wax filled the spaces. The wax object was replaced by bronze using the lost-wax casting process.
The braclet will forever contain an imprint of the rainfall from my 21st birthday.
