Swimming the nuclear
an investigation into the Blackwaters, an estuary with a nuclear character.
Spring 2021 - 2022
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1. Thames lighters telling an unexpected story
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2.Inlet and Outlet
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3. Swimming at stake
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Shards of memory
tide line debris
Autumn 2021
Photo's and materials of the estuary printed on clay using cyanotype
The boundary between land and water is changing, shifting with time. The industries and dwellings in and around the Blackwater estuary will be shaped and mis-shaped by the rising sea levels. The anthropocene creates an ecology of flotsam on the shore. A cacophony of stuff disregarding time and chronology. The tide tumbles objects. Where will the the future shore be ? Beach combing a future shore what will we find? Debris from industries gets dumped, packaged, buried, who will find that, pick it up and turn it in their hand?
2020, The Nuclear Landscape, blueprints on fabric based on walking around Bradwell Power station
Boreholes and dorodango
Spring 2022
Over 260 Boreholes were drilled between St. Peter's Chapel and Bradwell Marina. This stretch of land is known in the Bradwell B information brochure as 'Indicative main development site'. Taking out deep core samples of earth to measure suitability for a depository site. The boreholes are archived by the BGS, British Geological Survey.
Boreholes and Dorodango is a investigative piece of fieldwork, driven by curiosity and memory of place, making small holes 25cm deep. Using the clay to make dorodango. These Clay balls are archived through photography and personal memory.
Erosion Series
2021-2022
The erosion series is a collection of photographs and short film clips about coastal erosion. Rising sea levels are of concern to the coastal communities of East England. Features like seawalls, spur walls, barges, concrete slabs , wooden posts and managed retreats are visible all throughout the estuary. On and off shore flora and fauna reacts by detaching and attaching itself. The estuary can be likened to a laboratory with various experiments to combat sea level rise, executed at the same time.
Film clip: sea level rise and nuclear facilities.
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Film clip: sea level rise and nuclear facilities.
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Big up Plankton
2021-2022
2021-2022
The native oyster is a scientific keystone specie in the Blackwaters. Rich in cultural local history, oyster production dates back to Elizabethan times. The old oyster packing shed now only accessible by kayak is a witness to this history and of sea level rise. The oyster larvae are part of plankton. Plankton is destroyed when using cooling water for nuclear industries. At the height of the spatting eason as much as 130.000 larvae per day can be destroyed. Cutting off the possibility of a future oyster bed.
Film clip painting 130.000 oyster larvae with estuary mud.
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Film clip painting 130.000 oyster larvae with estuary mud.
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