Riparian
Stones Signifying Acceptance
Sea Gooseberries on Caldey
Riparian These wavy wet lines delineate the bands of dampness These wet wavy lines indicate Just how far, what the extent is of an area of dampness where the tide has washed in over the top of this ever shifting shingle bank Pushing with the force of the sea's ceaseless motion driving scattering detritus randomly along the shore seaweed flotsam & jetsam discarded plastic cans wood See how far the tide has come what the event was of that last high tide evidenced here Whether rough or calm and the which more recently Surf builds or destroys According to the moon tides & the wind Sometime surging Terrifyingly menacingly magnificently As when one time ships were wrecked now a site of beach-combing metal-detecting finding semiprecious stones shining in the wetness revealed by the suns rays Where the sea the sand and the air meet Copyright © 2014 Victor Weston
Stones Signifying Acceptance An initiation into living by the North Sea Coast is the collection and displays of flints found on the beach with holes naturally formed that go right through they’re small to large and every size in between these may be assembled and strung on a rope, stones signifying acceptance by the “unseen spirits” of the shore The walking and the finding is a voyage of discovery even a scientific adventure: realising the formation of the stones - by inserted tiny ones that grind round and round, vortex like literally wearing down the stones like minute Henry Moores, waiting to be discovered picked up, treasured as forms of art of the greater Art of the Cosmos The happen-stance into which one finds them ... from which may be assembled one’s own ordered reality strung, abacas vertebrae-like, a unique design but a temporary intervention in the passing of millenia Copyright © 2012 Victor Weston
Sea Gooseberries on Caldey I sit waiting on the quay at Caldey watching the tide ebb leaving stranded sea gooseberries on the wet concrete as the water recedes I toss some of these bejewelled creatures back into the welcoming clear turquoise waters the light so strong on its moving surface hardly a wave, so calm not always at rest, but this such an excellent morning for a crossing, a departing a bidding farewells, and looking ahead to the approaching future. Copyright © Victor Weston 2012