The coastline is a meeting place between our inhabited, constructed environment and the unknown shifting shape of the sea.

 

The coastline at Camber Sands in East Sussex has evolved over the centuries through a combination of natural causes and human engineering. The land has risen and the draining of the Romney Marches over the centuries has re-drawn the shape of the coastline. The long tides expose, at low tide, a vast expanse of sand - a borderland between the sea and the land.

 

The Purbeck cost in Dorset in south west England is part of the south west coast path. Known as the Jurassic coast it offers a geological walk through time spanning the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Apart from natural transformation over millennia parts of the coast owe their current form to centuries of quarrying, which has re-shaped cliff faces and created man made caves.

 

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