A beach is the fragile border between the domains of man and nature. Man walks that border here with care and respect. I composed this image around three layers – the beach, the man, and the sea. The beach is strewn with debris that has been cast up by the sea. It echoes the sea – each piece of wood moves along the same horizontal plane as each line of waves. The man is the middle layer here – he is incongruously small in scale compared to the sea, and is the focal point of the image. The sea is the background layer – while the waves are surging towards us, they are also lined up as horizontal rows of whitecaps. Together, all three layers speak of the beach: the fragile border between the domains of man and nature.