David Batchelder uses the camera not to picture more clearly what we already know, but to discover and catch what we have no idea exists. He shares an inexplicable, ambiguous, imaginative and odd world of magical visions: landscapes, spaces, creatures and curious objects, disfigured and eroded by the ocean.

Although he works digitally, his approach has its origin very much in the era of film, using the computer as one would have used a darkroom. David Campany's essay introduces the tideland world, where the viewer's imagination and memory take over.

“Poetic and scientific.” — David Campany