I've spent many hours exploring Shelter Island´s Marshes. There is beauty in their impermanence, caught forever in a cycle of change– dying and regrowing.

 

The Shelter Island marshes were originally part of large land formations near the northeast shore of Shelter Island, NY. Over centuries, storms and hurricanes crashed against the shore, dislodging the land, and grinding it into small pieces and sand that were propelled by the northeast current.

 

This process created a landmass that expanded into the sea and became known as Haybeach Point, a narrow neck of land that halted further destruction by the storms. There, water-borne stones and sand, roving wildlife, and varied flora continuously modify the landscape.