Charles Seymore

The Dark Sea

It is beyond rational explanation, but for some short time after that day of the solar eclipse, I really felt like I would never recognise the sun again. The eclipse was about waiting for darkness to happen and then equally for the return of a normal sun. The clouds allowed us to experience this coincidence of cosmic time and scale.

Tacita Dean's account of the eclipse evoke the extroadinary darkness falling over land and sea. I have looked at her monumental blackboad drawings as well as at the ocean for inspiration for this large chalk drawing on 32 seperate sheets of specially prepared paper mounted on board.