CLIMATE CHANGE & THE INTERTIDAL PROJECT COLLIDE
Climate change wasn’t an impetus for the Intertidal Project; however, the topic manifested during my Return Location Attempts. When I shot my first “foot marker” photos, I didn’t envision that the fragile bluff edges might crumble beneath me. Four years later, my Sea Pine Tree Line location has become a remarkable study in climate change. My reference pictures revealed that the ledge where I stood has slowly decayed from extreme weather events. As it becomes too dangerous to shoot there, I hope the essential site fifty feet above ground level won’t give way and take me down with it.
MAY 2020
OCTOBER 2024
GAME OVER: SOLSTICE TREE LINE
My Return Location Attempts embody the essence of the Intertidal Project. The goal is to capture incarnations of all the tidal levels at each location. Achieving that requires visits to the EXACT same location to repeat the EXACT same composition as the first “target” photograph. However, recent attempts have become exercises in futility, yielding poor results. At some sites there is nowhere safe left to stand because of damage caused by climate change. Unattainable matches have forced me to abandon locations documented over five years. My heart breaks for the loss of the coastline and the project.
JULY 2018
OCTOBER 2024
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