March 28
By christina riley
Seashells on paper (Digital Photograph)
h: 12
w: 8
d: 4
(cms).
The Beach Today
March 28 2020
https://twitter.com/cmarieriley/status/1244006292219482113
The Beach Today is a project which grew out of lockdown during the coronavirus crisis, presenting the findings of beach combs from my daily walks on the west coast of Scotland.
Creating arrangements of natural materials found on the beach - shells, pebbles, pottery, egg cases - The Beach Today illustrates what the beach looked like that day. By looking closely at the details these pieces display the endless colours, shapes, textures and curiosities of the sea shore. Each collection is displayed on white cartridge paper and photographed on an iPhone, shared each evening with an online audience on Twitter and my website.
The project has started a discourse on Twitter, with people from across the world sharing either, their own finds from beaches or gardens during lockdown, or past beach finds from when they could visit the sea. It has been a hugely inspiring and heartwarming project, and both collecting and sharing these arrangements has undoubtedly been the highlights of my day during this strange, locked down era of our lives.
(For physical exhibition, these collections would be presented in a deep set frame, securing the objects to a board and allowing viewers to see first hand what truly makes these collections special - the way the light plays on the different shapes, the variety of textures, how the colour of the shells and pebbles change in different light.)
£200
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