Coastal environments hold attention in a way of their own. The combination of open horizon, rhythmic movement, and the particular quality of light over water creates conditions that a growing body of research on coastal and water environments associates with reduced stress and restored attention. These images were made at that edge where land gives way to ocean, in the particular stillness that exists just beyond the reach of the water. They bring that quality of space indoors without requiring a journey to find it.
The coastal works in this collection range from piers reaching into dusk and sea stacks standing against the tide to quiet shorelines along the Pacific Coast, in Australia and New Zealand, and in Iceland. They suit bedrooms and bathrooms, where their rhythm supports rest, as well as living rooms and waiting rooms, where an open horizon gives the eye somewhere to go. Many are panoramic, so they are well suited to long walls, and the acrylic presentations bring out the luminosity of light on water especially well.
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