Coastline is twenty real coasts drawn the way a chart or an aerial photograph sees them: topography and tide, in patina blue, sea-glass, oat and chalk, with one gold hairline for the tide's edge. No sunsets, no seagulls. Each piece is a place you can find on a map, with the fact that makes it worth drawing.
From above
Lighthouse Reef, Belize: a limestone cave that flooded as the last ice age ended, about 318 metres across and 124 deep, with stalactites still hanging inside it.
At Grenen two seas meet, and their waves cross in a line you can stand beside.
The cliffs retreat about two centimetres a year. There were never twelve, and one stack fell in 2005.
South of Walvis Bay, Namibia. The cold Benguela current makes the fog that waters the desert.
About 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, most of them hexagonal, left by a lava flow some 60 million years ago.
Twenty-nine kilometres of shingle graded so evenly that fishermen landing in the dark were said to know where they were by the pebbles in their hands.
The causeway floods twice a day and the safe crossing times are published. Cars are still caught most years.
The largest unbroken system of tidal flats in the world, laid bare twice a day.
Concretions that grew in seafloor mud about 60 million years ago. The cliff behind the beach is still releasing them.
Rías are river valleys the sea flooded when it rose after the last ice age.
The MOSE gates across the three inlets have held back the highest tides since 2020.
The strongest tidal current in the world, with whirlpools up to ten metres across.
One of the largest tidal bores in the world, on the second highest tidal range anywhere.
Charts and curves
About 2,300 kilometres long, the largest structure on Earth built by living things.
The canyon focuses Atlantic swell into the biggest waves ever surfed.
The biggest tides come when the Sun and Moon pull in line, at new and full Moon, the smallest at the quarters. The world's largest range, about 16 metres, is in the Bay of Fundy.
From the shore
Chalk laid down on a sea floor and cut by the waves into arch and needle. The coast Monet painted again and again.
About 1,600 limestone islands and islets: a karst landscape the sea has drowned.
At 68 degrees north, and kept mild by the Gulf Stream.
Vieques, Puerto Rico: the brightest bioluminescent bay on record. The light comes from single-celled dinoflagellates, up to hundreds of thousands in every gallon of water.
Formats
Canvas first, in three sizes, gallery-wrapped. Then an organic cotton tote in natural oyster, and a Comfort Colors tee on Ivory or Blue Jean depending on the piece. The pieces share one paper and one palette, so any two hang together. Printed to order and shipped to the US, Canada, the UK, the EU, Australia and New Zealand (canvas to all but New Zealand).
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