Anticline reflects upon the imperceptible processes of change that shape the landscape in deep time. The series weaves a dialogue between images of various phenomena; folded sedimentary rock, a submerged Bronze Age forest, fossilised Jurassic trees, sea-eroded natural arches, and extant temperate rainforest. Relics of ecosystems originating in the remote past persisting in the landscape, petrified at different stages of disappearance. My intention is to consider the landscape as an evolving archive- an entity in a state of continuous flux and metamorphosis, recording successive iterations of itself over time in its own fabric.
These phenomena are approached as the product of collisions between overlapping timescales, cyclical processes and geological forces: rock warps while wood resists the weight of eons, dissolving the ostensibly fixed boundary between the organic and the geologic. The images inhabit a primordial sense of time, a complex temporal web in which we are all enmeshed, against which the crises and endeavours of our species must be contextualised. From this perspective, we might see a suggestion of our precarious future in fossilised floods and prehistoric extinctions, entertaining the possibility that both deep pasts and futures might also be inhabited by the photographic instant.