Measuring Time
‘I watch the tidal flow of Ross River and the constant reshaping of exposed sand banks which are ready shapes to be scribbled into a sketch, then made into a painting that will keep moving. In a technical sense, a sandbar is a shoal, built up like a reef. Therefore, shoals are characteristically long and narrow and develop in places where sediment deposition results in the shallowing or shoaling of the water. So a sand bar, shoal, gravel bar sandbank all describe the same thing. What I find so marvellous is that unlike many other solid geological features, the movements of sandbars are daily and become like hand-written texts.’