Rather than just continuing to take isolated photos on my wanderings with the dogs on their evening walks I've decided to use my photographic time at Victor Harbor to work towards creating a beach mosaic. This is similar in design or concept to the work of Troy Ruffels and it would be constructed from images of the local coastal environment.

The mosaic would be shot with a medium format on film and it would consist of rocks, sea, sky, shells and the flotsam I've come across on the beach.

Just taking isolated photos on my wanderings doesn't work for me anymore. Now that I have more time for my photography the images need to be part of an ongoing project with definite limits. The limits have to be severe in order for me to be learn how to handle working on the project rather than just taking snaps. What is more severe than the modernist grid?

What is attractive about the modernist grid is that it destroys hierarchy in a picture, for the most part, and because of that it allows me to present ideas without having to know which idea came first or is most important.The modernist grid represents modern art's hostility to literature, to narrative to discourse and aimed to wall the visual arts into a realm of exclusive visuality and defending them against writing. It is a visual structure that explicitly rejects an narrative or sequential reading. The order of the grid is one of pure relationship that is divorced from of objects in the world to an order particular to themselves.

It connects with the post-modern reading of nature as a textual construct made up of countless layers of human interpretation, none of which is privileged over another.