The point where two or more elements, or areas meet is always a fluid, dynamic and fascinating place to be. There is, quite literally friction where the sea kisses the land with a rather benign sounding hiss. That sound is very deceptive, the sea has worn and shaped our coastal landscape over millennia, and in areas of the UK like Cornwall, created the most beautiful coastline imaginable. A beauty caused by a physical antipathy and a billion collisions between two different elements.
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| Godrevy Lighthouse, Cornwall |
Our world, externally and internally is mapped with borders, the sea borders the land and at least appears to border the sky. And the external objective reality (the one we can never see!) is butted up against our internal interpretation of it. When ten students draw exactly the same subject, and yet each drawing turns out (often radically) different to the rest, this is not just down to the students' knowledge, skill, powers of observation etc. It is because they all interpret the world differently- effectively meaning that they all 'live' in different worlds.
This is why art is fascinating, you get to see a strong detail of someone else's vision of the place we live.
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