THESE TOWERS WILL ONE DAY SLIP INTO THE SEA
Bouncing bombs. A Saxon shore. An eroding coastline.
Gary Budden has been fascinated with Reculver and its towers, dominating the skyline on the north Kent coast,England, a few miles east from the town of Herne Bay, for his entire life.
Always pulled back to walk its crumbling sandstone cliffs at constant threat from the encroaching sea; watching the colony of nesting sand martins burrowed deep into the stone. Amazed by the ruined twelfth-century church on the site of a seventh-century monastery, itself on the site of a Roman fort built to defend against invading Saxons, in the place where the British Army tested the bouncing bomb.
A riot of histories, invasion, innovation, assimilation.
As part of Kickstarter's Make 100 initiative, and joining forces with renowned landscape artist Maxim Griffin once more, These Towers Will One Day Slip Into the Sea is the follow up to 2019’s The White Heron Beneath the Reactor: a new illustrated landscape punk book exploring the windswept and evocative landscapes of Reculver, and its dizzying layers of history and human narrative.
