This is as good as it gets:
this cold fog over the water, this pale
companion to the dreams I can’t forget
and never quite recall…
— from “Haar”, by John Burnside.
The meteorological phenomenon of sea fret (referred to locally as Haar) occurs in the North East and Scotland during spring, suggests the sublimity of nature when cold fog from the North Sea accumulates and meets the warmer area of the land. recorded on photographic colour film, these images explore the ambiguity between land and sea created by these conditions.