Along the Somerset coast, wooden groynes stand in the intertidal zone

Structures that no longer serve their engineering purpose but persist as vertical presences against horizontal sea and sky.

The intertidal zone is threshold made geographical. Twice daily, these posts stand in water, then in air, belonging fully to neither. They are neither functional nor ruin, neither fully present nor absent. What was built to resist the sea now simply withstands time, which is a different kind of resistance entirely.

Long exposure collapses minutes into singular images. Water becomes static surface while the posts appear almost animated, asserting themselves against the blur of tide and weather. The grain of the wood emerges—salt-scoured, fissured, holding the record of its own weathering.

These photographs find what remains when purpose withdraws and presence is all that's left.