Accidents at Saligo: This series of photographs were all made on the Isle of Islay, by Saligo Bay. I am not sure why I have formed a particular attachment to this place. Looking west, there is nothing between the bay and Newfoundland, over 2000 miles away. It is a living, breathing and emotional place, sometimes angry and at other times happy, but always seemingly indifferent to me.

The images are all made using the multiple exposure mode in my camera. This allowed me to take a series of images (between two and ten), which would be then compressed to output one image.

What it meant, especially when I selected a higher number of images to be compressed, was that I rarely knew what I was going to end up with. The collages were unforeseen and unpredictable. I worked ‘until I knew not’.

Sometimes, dodging the waves in the shallow waters, I pressed the camera shutter in rapid succession, but other times over an extended period. For example, a finished and compressed image might take the same period that it took for 100 waves to crash against the shore. This idea of stretching time, so that it no longer followed Newtonian principles, seemed more apposite to my experiences.