Beachcomb
A Collaborative Project
Beachcomb is a collaboration with Marine and Natural History Photography undergraduate student James Wylie. A collection of photographs on Castle Beach, Falmouth, encompassing chance discovery and placing contemporary sculpture as an artefact in a Cornish landscape; the artefact being controlled by the tide deposited on the Falmouth shore. The photograph collection captures a singular brass pot being lost and found at Castle Beach. An art project utilizing a natural landscape incorporating sand and sea to bury the work in various locations of interest creating narrative on a rocky beach where sea-lost finds would naturally wash up.
By placing contemporary sculpture amongst the Cornish landscape the work is connected to the wider context expanding its meaning to the narrative of beachcombed finds and so being experienced as one. The very earth that preserves artefacts, the natural and organic landscape of sand and sea placed the sculpture where archaeology exists as washed-up depositions of finds along land’s shore.