Dorothy and Lindsey exchange picture post
The English coast has been hit with wave after wave of urban, bourgeois mythology. Its charm, constructed at arm’s length, is rooted in decline – from tragedies endured by noble fisherfolk, as pictured in a certain school of academic painting in the late 19th century, to the etiolation of the seaside holiday (farewell cheeky postcards and knobbly knee competitions?)
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Dorothy Feaver
Huitrier – Pie de Mer.
There is still a fine layer of sand at the bottom of the bay and at the back a group of portuguese teenagers suck the backs of their hands noisily, pretending to kiss.
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Lindsey Hanlon
Kiss me quack.
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Dorothy Feaver
Soft focus flirting.
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Dorothy Feaver
Beach
1530s, probably from O.E. bæce, bece “stream,” from P.Gmc. *bakiz. Extended to loose, pebbly shores (1590s), and in dialect around Sussex and Kent beach still has the meaning “pebbles worn by the waves.” Fr. grève shows the same evolution. The verb “to haul or run up on a beach” is first attested 1840. Beach bum first recorded 1962.
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Lindsey Hanlon
Bæce bums, South Coast, 1980s.
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Dorothy Feaver
West Coast, 2010
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Lindsey Hanlon
