The Scottish coastline of Fife is often associated with natural beauty, appearing from Edinburgh as if it’s just a stone’s throw away. My dad used to tell me stories of spending summer holidays there, a stark contrast to today’s reality with rows of boarded-up shops and rarely encountering another person. The coastline, although still beautiful, feels weathered, with its buildings battered by constant wind and rain, slowly eroded by the corrosive sea air.

Exploring the Kinghorn coast, I documented objects, spaces, and buildings that have succumbed to and adapted to the harsh elements. I gathered collections of photographs and videos, focusing on the resilience and transformation of these items and environments. Often looking down rather than out, I discovered life all around me, solitary and fighting for survival. Discarded items like tyres washed ashore bore no resemblance to their former selves, tread worn to cracks and crevices, slowly inhabited by moss.

Studying these processes and textures allowed me to respond sonically, creating additional context for these sites through imagined stories of their existence and further expression of their corroded and worn nature using experimental sound techniques.