This work continues my interest in the contestation of space along the kanamaluka / Tamar estuary. The impetus is a campaign urging the public and authorities to 'Fix the mud'. Despite using the language of environmentalism, research reveals the campaign is being led primarily by entities with vested interest in the waterways. This conflict raises the idea of a socialised notion of 'nature' and encourages a critical understanding of what political, economic, and social interests dominate the discourse around the estuary's current and future use.
The methodology involves producing landscape photographs and sitting the film at the tide line for a week before returning to the work and developing the sheets in my home studio The end results are markings, etchings, sedimentary influence, light leaks and algae burning onto the film and engaging a type of co-authorship over the final image.