2 Herons Crossing

2 Herons Crossing captures a fleeting moment of serendipitous wilderness encounter during a psychogeographic pilgrimage across Romney Marsh. This black and white landscape photograph, with its dramatic storm clouds gathering over the shingle expanse, documents both physical terrain and emotional resonance. The minimalist composition frames the vast marshland beneath an imposing sky, creating a meditation on threshold spaces and chance encounters.

The work emerges from a reverse pilgrimage from St Clements Church to Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage—transforming personal experience into visual poetry. As I crossed a Victorian red brick bridge spanning a marsh dyke, two herons took flight simultaneously from opposite banks, their paths intersecting midair in a momentary ballet visible only to me. This private synchronicity speaks to the unpredictable magic that emerges in liminal landscapes where human intention meets wild spontaneity.

The stark monochromatic treatment honours the marsh's inherent contrasts while the precise documentation of duration—6 hours, 16 minutes—grounds the ephemeral experience in measured time. Through this deliberate tension between chance and documentation, the work invites viewers to consider how brief encounters in threshold spaces might generate meaning beyond their fleeting nature.