One of the fascinating things about nature is how patterns repeat—the way, for example, the branching of trees can rhyme with the branching of rivers. This repetition can convince some of a guiding hand behind it all—and others that physics and evolution flow toward similar solutions to similar problems.
This phenomenon is at the heart of my friend Todd A. Prussman’s exhibition of black and white photos at Middle Street Foods, the cafe at 25 Middle St. in Newburyport, through the end of March. The 2023 images record the shimmering light and sand and sea (and the occasional driftwood) where they all meet at Sandy Point State Reservation in Ipswich, the beach at the very southern tip of Plum Island. The photos are so finely detailed that they feel like walking in the wet sand.
“It is a location that is in constant flux,” writes the Haverhill photographer and Boston Herald editor. “The sand, like the water, flows there and the light spills. So the subject is the notion that the sand, light and water all move constantly, and in similar ways.”
Rippling sand resembles rippling waves, the dazzling patterns repeat, as it all flows together at the edge of the world.
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