My local shoreline
This is a look at the diverse constituents that make up my local shoreline (the North Somerset coast) and the never ending dichotomies that are played out cheek by jowl. Like families, they have to be accepted and viewed as a whole. View each image and see it not in isolation, but in context. See the bigger picture and a different view through fresh eyes.
The detritus we leave is often an eyesore, but nature makes art of it (See image six). What might this look like in five hundred years (think of the cannons recovered from Henry VIII’s warship Mary Rose)?
Perhaps the images of human interference leave negative thoughts but it is just a small part of the greater picture. Open your eyes and see beyond just a pebble beach, see beyond the detritus, see beyond the static limpets and seaweed. See life and death being played out before you. See the past laid bare for all to read. Let’s keep our eyes open and see the beauty and celebrate our interactions as a part of the greater picture.
Our boring old beach
Where life and death are played out every day
Millions of years laid bare you see
Where man leaves his mark, nature adapts and adopts
Two high, two low, the rhythm of life
Mapped out on the beach gently ebb gently flow
Creating harmony where once there was discord
Where work and play are but a stone’s throw away
Not such a boring old beach
M. Butteriss (Jan 2019)
Please follow this link https://eledhwen.blog/exercise-5-2/ to view the contextual exercise (exercise 5.2) on my learning blog.
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Part five has been about points of view and consequently, interpretation. This can often, unwittingly become over complicated. Please follow this link https://eledhwen.blog/exercise-5-2/ to view the contextual exercise 5.2 on my learning blog, in which I have tried to express another person’s image in a more ‘boiled down’ way.
I see! 