PROJECT RATIONALE

The seaside piers around the coast of Britain not only stand as a powerful reminder of the achievements of Victorian engineers and
entrepreneure, but more importantly act as a catalyst for the creation and sharing of early and formative memory.

The revisiting of known/familiar sites are rich in connotations associated to the ebb and flow of our own remembering and hint at times
towards the fragments of memory captured and collected from our past and now revisited/washed ashore. Our first encounter of these
sites are predominately rooted in our formative years by either our parents or grandparents and frequently culminate in ourselves revisiting
or introducing our own lineage to these locales.

Time and Tide explores the place seaside pleasure piers hold in ourchildhood and collective memories. As a comprehensive survey,
Time and Tide highlights the cultural importance of these sites, as individual artworks, the photographs defy time - on occasions
figures reappear in a different part of the image, the passing of time, a stroll along the beach or a football game are part of the experience

The recording, documentation, filing and preserving of a photographic record is, by its very nature, an act of faith in the future. As an aide
memoire, and as we ourselves visit/revisit these areas we are in essence involved the continual process of 'remembering the past by the
creation of the new'.

Perhaps central to this revisiting lies in our own sense of the familiar and in the security that implies and instils. This 'comfort in the
familiar' is implicit and constant and it is perhaps this commonality that links these sites to each other and ourselves in turn to them.

As LawrenceGeorge Giles states "The beauty of these sites of leisure therefore exist in their similarity, in the aspect of the constant,
the known and the given. It is this significance in these apparent and seemingly insignificant moments of time that I am attempting to
capture and collect to the work itself - not in the sense of the personal and private record or document, but more so in the creation of
an album of communally shared private moments."