is a photo~poem, developed while walking on a local beach
Stranded, Lynne Cameron, 2020. Christchurch, New Zealand
strand is an old English/Norse word that refers to the part of the beach revealed as the tide goes out, that lies between high tide and low tide. As such, it is a temporary and always shifting space.
There was originally a further stanza to the poem - the choice of photo affects how many words can ‘fit’. The end result is neither poem nor photo, and both poem and photo. I am fascinated, and sometimes frustrated, by the dynamics of interaction between image and verbal meaning.
Composing feels like a process of offering affordances and attending to what emerges —