Showing posts with label erosion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label erosion. Show all posts

Saturday, June 12, 2021

The Constant Shore Reprised

 Constant in its colours -- in the contrasting blues, greens and rust; constant in the renewal after a long winter dormant under ice and snow, and fierce winds.

L.Mould, The Constant Shore Reprised, 2021 (acrylic on canvas, 20" x 24")

An eroding shoreline belies the optimism.

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Storm Surge: an Interpretation

Storm Surge, 2002 (paper 11" x 15")
 Cold, windy and circling in the atmosphere, sweeping around fro the southwest to the northeast.
Storm Surge, 2004 (paper 11" x 15")
 A nor'easter with high tide.
Storm Surge, 2004 (canvas 20" x 24")
In retrospect it becomes clear.

Saturday, March 18, 2017

The Constant Shore

Timeless, enduring, constant -- the dunes are deceptive in appearance. A surge with a nor'easter shouts at them -- they are not so constant after all. 
Acrylic on canvas (20" x 24")
They are changeable, eroding, losing ground - every year.

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Windblown on a Gulf

Coastal dunes, windblown on a gulf
The Dunes (study no. 1), 2015 acrylic on paper (15" x 22")

The Dunes (study no. 2), 2015 acrylic on paper (15" x 22")
-- two studies.

Sunday, August 2, 2015

The Dunes

Coastal dunes made of shape shifting sand, windblown on a gulf, on a sea, on a beach or in a desert.  Tenuously held in place with grasses and other fragile plants in need of protection.

Acrylic on canvas (18" x 24")
Like arms around a parabolic curve.

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Coast and Sky

Storms unceasing, the coast battered by wind and salt spray.

Acrylic on canvas (30" x 24")

The rocks appear and disappear in the ebb and flow of the tidal swell eroding the ground we stand upon.

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Layers of the Earth

Layers of soil fold-in and re-form in layers of landscape. Earth shaped by wind and water, by farming and mining, full of ups and downs.


Sedimentary layers deposited by slow movements -- almost sedentary, seemingly still and dependable, surprising us sometimes by upheaval. What fault can we find with this?


Sunday, August 4, 2013

Bound By Water

Bound by water; its very definition is an island, a natural boundary unlike others that are just lines drawn in the sand. Contained by the sea yet the sea washes it away. We look outward -- not too far lest thoughts stray to other lands and other climates.


Bound to be.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Coastal Erosion

Constant hydraulic action on the cliffs creates the conditions for erosion caused by the attrition of soil and rocks. Trees teeter on the edge only to fall in the next storm.

 

The coastline, eroded by waves and weather gives way to these forces of time and tide.

Midsummer

 The summer solstice; it is the anticipation of the warmth of the earth, the beauty of a flowering world. It is a festival of brilliant ligh...