For a long time I’ve felt drawn to explore ‘in-between’ spaces, a concept which seems to have been shared by ancient cultures since time immemorial. In Celtic mythology, these liminal spaces manifest as an awareness of the unnameable places, not to be found on any map. They can be sites of transition, neither one thing nor the other. A few examples include doorways, shorelines, the forest’s edge, or for this series, tide pools. 

Tide pools hold our entire universe and collective consciousness within them. Their transient and chameleon-like nature would not exist if not for the gravity pulling on their delicate waters, a gravity I followed daily while photographing this series in order to chart my visits at high tide. Through capturing life and existence here, this idea of a ‘thin place’ could materialize in a way where the extraordinary was possible, and where the bonds of reality and the everyday could be shed. 

A couple of themes emerged while shooting: illusions of land ownership (who can claim space where land stops and sea begins?), as well as the concept of moons and planetary connections to our moving seas. Tides seem to be informed by the simple relationship between ourselves and our moon, a symbiotic embrace defined by orbits immeasurable and our gentle journey within a limitless universe. 

We tend to compartmentalize the world into land, sea, and sky; yet, tide pools cannot be constrained to this binary standard of thinking. These photographs speak to the unique life which exists in both land and sea, a balance to be found in one of Earth’s most liminal spaces.