The coastline, inland hills, and industrial remnants became places where I could inhabit the environment on my own terms, moving slowly, observing, and responding intuitively. This embodied engagement is central to the research: photography, like clay and thread, allows me to hold fleeting sensations and translate them into material forms that carry both ecological and personal knowledge.

The work was developed using analogue processes, including hand-processed cyanotypes and seaweed-based developers, connecting the photographic material directly to the environment depicted. Images are created intuitively, guided by texture, light, and rhythm rather than narrative. Shadows across rock faces, rusted metal, shifting shorelines, and quiet inland paths are gestures toward understanding landscape as alive, layered, and in motion.

Fragments explores presence and absence, human and non-human histories, and the persistence of labour and memory in land. It is a study in how landscapes shaped by extraction and erosion retain traces of past activity while continuing to evolve. The project demonstrates how slow, sensory research, responsive to place and neurodivergent ways of being, can generate knowledge that exists between record, material engagement, and embodied reflection. The resulting body of work forms an archive of place: a meditation on belonging, resilience, and the ongoing dialogue between land, material, and self.