Inspiration

INSPIRATION: When you get on to a beach, look at the sea, see what it tells you.

THINGS TO BE FOUND ON A BEACH

(Natural or manmade, practical or decorative, local or peregrine, exotic or mundane, dead or alive, organic/inorganic.)

Fish, birds, frogs, cetaceans

Gannets, guillemots, razorbill, fulmars, gulls, shags, cormorants, little auk

Sinister (hypodermic, smoke canisters, chemicals)

Toys

Wood (firing, built, soft/hard)

Fishing gear (local) (commercial/anglers’)

Fishing gear (America/Canada/Iberian)

Sea beans

Clothing

Lifesaving equipment (marker flares, jackets, C-rations, life belts, light sticks)

Coal

Parasites (Toledo worm, Gribble worm (six different species in British waters), goose barnacle, algae)

Wrecks, wreckers.

Selection by: currents and coastal morphology, tidal drift, weather.

Beach Changes

Weather

Big seas/ calm seas

Change in beach profile: movement of sand, stones, rock, cliff falls, streams, rivers, dunes, strandline, roads.