A Tidal Practice
Made within a single tidal cycle. A line is walked into wet sand using the body as tool. One pass, no return, completed by the sea. Structure comes from constraint, not design. Each work is shaped by slope, light, wind and the time available before the sea returns.
These works are made within the landscape. They are not representations of it.
Tony Plant is a Cornwall-based sculptor working with walking, tide and duration. In the studio, Tidal Journals gather and hold that same duration in material form. Made from recovered shoreline materials, they fix what the drawings cannot — time. Often hinged as diptychs or triptychs, the journals are tactile carry pieces, built to fold and travel.
These works are not representations of landscape. They are made within it. Form accumulates through walking. The tide sets the boundary and the sea resolves the work. Forever.