ocean
Where the Land Argues Back
A wild coastline is a border dispute four billion years old, still unresolved.
Gentle beaches are the sea's diplomacy; cliffs are its wars. On a wild coast nothing has been settled — arches stand until they don't, stacks hold out offshore like rearguards, and every winter storm redraws a map that no one is allowed to keep.
These photographs collect the front line in its grandest moods: spray climbing sixty feet of headland, lighthouses earning their salaries, the sea green-white and furious or oily-calm and plotting.
For a screen, wild coasts offer what tidy landscapes cannot — evidence that the world is still being decided. Some mornings that is exactly the right wallpaper.
