Several recent art-based field trips were spent alongside specialist geologists and others studying the habitat of living microbial rocks , stromatolites, situated in one of two bays in the Gathaagudu, Shark Bay, Western Australia. My research extended to the archives of the offsite facility of WA Museum Boola Bardip, and the collection facility of the Museum of Earth Sciences Department of Geology, University of Western Australia. The stromatolites and their watery environments of hyper-saline, warm tidal patterns extends to other stromatolite fieldwork undertaken in remote sites in Nyamal, Pilbara where 3.4 billion years of tidal patterns were observed lithified in rock strata . This research will form the conceptual framework of this project, sensitive to non-human-centred perspectives of patterns in tidal histories and future speculation.

Fossilised Stromatolite outcrop

graphite frottage Archaean Tides