Tidal Archive
WIP
Screen print on paper
This work is part of an ongoing obsession with the River Thames. The photographs are made from and around the river, where landmarks and urban structures are encountered along its course rather than treated as subjects in their own right.
Photographic images are halftoned and screen printed, shifting them from representation into surface. Through this process, familiar landmarks lose visual certainty and authority. Layers of screen printed marks are added as separate interventions, interrupting and overwriting the image without fully obscuring it.
The River Thames operates as a carrier of memory, accumulation and loss.
Older than the city it supports, the river acts as a counterforce to monumentality, continually unsettling the permanence claimed by architecture and infrastructure.
The layered marks function as sedimentary traces, echoing processes of drift, erosion and return present within the river itself.
The work positions the urban landscape as provisional and unstable, shaped by time, movement and continual re-marking rather than fixed identity.
