Once again I am drawn to the River Add estuary with its extensive sandbanks that stretch out into Crinan Bay. Watching the tide return from two different directions creates a sense that messages and stories are being transmitted as the ripples collide before reaching the end of their journey.
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Transition
The power of the turn of the tide always amazes me - the sense of wiping clean a slate. This is from one of my favourite locations in Argyll that I continue to be drawn to - the River Add estuary which has extensive sandbanks that stretch out into Crinan Bay. There is a powerful sense of being enclosed by water as the tide comes in - as sense of walking in a transitionary place.
The Sgurr of Eigg
Wild freedom of sailing the seas makes me realise how important the ocean is to me for all inspiration in art, poetry and photography. Here the clouds curl over the top of Eigg’s famous rocky Sgurr, a dramatic stump of pitchstone, sheer on three sides rising 393 metres above sea level. It is the youngest volcanic rock in Scotland at 58 million years old. Shadows billow out across the velvet bracken and fern covered slopes. The seas a rushing, living entity caught in pastel
Beyond
A video poem based on the foggy view across the Sound of Jura where I have to imagine whats on the other side of the blank face of fog
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