Turn of Tide

Turn of Tide wool pile rug 1m x 1.2m

My ‘Turn of Tide’ rug is about a special place and time I visit. There’s a pause out in Dhoon Bay between the ebb and flow of tide; time stands still for about 15 minutes maybe, until the magnetic pull tilts the enormous body of the Atlantic Ocean back towards my feet. I have to squint in the sun towards Little Ross Island to watch where the water will come from. Then, when the incoming sea pushes against the river the water trickles in an upside down V, time and tide threatening to engulf me! It’s scary and not to be messed with so Little Ross looses focus in my urgency back towards land, towards life.

Still, I keep going back to experience the edge of being with Little Ross symbolising this for me, symbolising me I’ve come to realise. We are tiny really in the big scheme of things, washed by forces much greater than we care to acknowledge. In ‘Turn of Tide’ I wanted to share the life energy of this place and time, the light, the insight, the urge towards more raw beauty symbolised by stylised water trickling in an upside down V to crown Little Ross and me.

Tide coming in at Dhoon Bay Kirkcudbright with my dog fishing in the distance

Little Ross Island, Kirkcudbright Bay

Kirkcudbright Bay photos by Laura