A Tidal Practice
Tony Plant is a Cornwall-based sculptor working with tide, duration and site. The tidal drawings are made by walking in wet sand within a single tidal cycle — one pass, no return — and are completed by the sea. Structure comes from constraint, not design. Each work records movement, duration and place.
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.