Tidelines : wave mapping

An ever-changing tide, the rhythmical movement of water passing over me. Like snow flakes each wave is different. Fleeting movements, constant change I am capturing the definition of shape. Tidelines is a three year project literally following the line of the tides as they roll over my paper. It is a conceptual drawing project: each drawing is made for approximately 5 minutes every five minutes. The exact time is written on each drawing. These drawings are made over a period of several hours, charting the ebb and flow of the tide. It is a very physical art piece, I am standing on the very lip of the water with tides rolling in, the water covering up to my knees.

I am building a concrete result from an apparently ethereal subject, a catalogued memory of tides. The anatomy of the wave traces a visible line over the page. It is on one level an almost scientific record-a visual recording over a defined period-and an artistic interpretation of these locations. I bind the drawings into books in the sequence as they were made. The locations vary, I began on the Zuiderstrand in The Hague, then Zealand in the Netherlands followed by Oostende in Belgium and the Île de Ré on the Atlantic Coast of France. These locations share a very real possibility of flooding. The aim is to draw attention to rising sea-levels through the medium of drawing. As the water levels rise it is the most visible edge to climate change. (bron: https://www.liliancooper.com)