Rock 1 (Blast Beach)

At Blast Beach, where industrial history meets tidal rhythms, these rocks tell stories of profound transformation. Once buried in darkness beneath the earth, they were violently displaced through mining and now lie exposed to sun and salt spray, their chemistry forever altered by their journey. Through my macro lens, their surfaces become abstract paintings - streaks of rust reds, sulfurous yellows, and metallic blacks creating compositions that speak of both industrial trauma and mineral beauty. These are not nature's original colours, but rather the visible signatures of human intervention, where underground chemical processes were accelerated and altered through mining activity. Now exposed to the elements, these rocks continue their transformation as sea and weather work upon their surfaces. They exist as both industrial artefacts and objects of natural beauty, their altered chemistry creating unexpected artworks that map the intersection of geological time and industrial force. Here, at the tide's edge, they remind us how human actions become permanently written into the earth's mineral memory.