This project examines the translocation of beach pebbles at Rye Harbour Local Nature Reserve, where according to the management plan little is natural. The coloured 3D printed simulacra, exact copies of the original stones created using photogrammetry, are rephotographed back at the site.
Yet their location is indeterminate. Littoral drift - longshore movement due to waves and currents - is responsible for daily shifts. The beach is maintained on an annual basis using heavy machinery which shift the stones back. On a longer timescale of hundreds of years the shoreline has shifted dramatically. A thousand years ago Rye Harbour did not exist. A thousand years hence it is unlikely to remain.
The work further explores the tension between nature and culture, referencing a previous age when humankind lived as part of an environment that was venerated through iconic stones. The media shift, from photograph to sculpture, denies the spectator the beguiling comfort of the apparently transparent view of a landscape picture, asking them instead for a more considered regard for place.