Out in the Open

It's 2010, the winter's over, and the wooden representations of breakwaters , and other coastal barriers, together with some large paintings on wood, have been lying out in the garden for over four months, through the ice, snow, rain, and sunshine. The harbour wall is cracked and peeling. Some of the others are a witness to permanence in a hostile environment.

To celebrate the beginning of a new year, the arrangement in which all the pieces had been combined into one, was reviewed, and the components split in two, like the parting of an amoeba, or a strand of DNA. They look less cluttered now.


One is path-like, with an entry and an exit. You can walk into, through, and out of it. Centered around a rectangle of large cobbled stones from the beach, the white bleached posts carry faint memories of last summer. An aging artist sits on the promenade, caught in mid brush-stroke. A line of breakwater posts stand proud but gnarled and pitted.


At the other end of the shed, in a corner shared with potted plants, a cave in a cliff is separated by a receding line of breakewater posts, funneling into the distance, as the waves pour out of a picture entitled "Rising Tide"


The sun shines onto the scene, casting its long low shadows of winter light.


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