Making comparisons

Time changes many things and through my daily photography with my camera and phone I have built up an ongoing record of photos of Purbeck which show changes that occur be it through the seasons, or due to weather events like storms or new buildings or demolition of others.

All of these are useful prompts for art pieces at a range of different sizes or on hats, wooden boxes etc.

Today as an example near Ocean Bay where Shore Road turns away from the shore towards Ulwell and the footpath continues onto the North Bay and private beaches of Swanage there is an outfall for rainwater. Recently the sand around it and over beach hut base frame has been accumulating. In the last two days we have had north easterly winds and strong waves and the shore has changed dramatically, also very strong rain yesterday with local flooding shutting the A351 into Swanage.

Earlier in the week the stream ran across the beach to reach the sea as it had less energy as we hadn’t had much rain.
Saturday saw very wet storm conditions and lots of rain locally so the stream must have increased dramatically and the sea was also much rougher.

Here are some other examples from my photo record:

Mass movement or land slip gradually happening at Burlington Chine
A previous storm in the bay and the use of a metal flood defence that was designed for rivers
Storm Ciara earlier in 2020 at Winspit
One of the bay’s casualties from Storm Alex in 2020
Landslide in 2019 that I drew after kayaking offshore to take some photos
Local sunsets have inspired several popular pieces of work

What inspires your work?

Or work that you like to look at?

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