Writing and photography, in rhythm.
This space is a curated archive of my creative work — reflections, field notes, and images that mark time and meaning. Some pieces began as Substack posts, now reclaimed and rehomed here. Others are new, unfolding in real time.
I publish here first. Substack serves as a distribution channel, but crowhurst.art is the canonical home.
Each post is a moment — visual, verbal, or both — offered without urgency, but with care.
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Good Grief
Grief arrives like weather on the moors, sudden, uninvited, and entirely indifferent to whether you are ready for it. It sweeps in with a coldness that feels older than you are, older than the land itself, and yet somehow it carries a strange, aching warmth. A reminder that love has lived here. That love still…
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Five Months in Motion
A season of motion has defined these past five months — a stretch of travel, study, building, illness, and creative work that kept reshaping the ground beneath my feet. From California’s coastal trails to a meditation and yoga retreat in Mexico, from the intensity of the spring semester and the making of a hand‑bound photobook…
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Six Months of Shifting Ground
A season of shifting ground — six months shaped by caregiving, travel, technical graft, and the slow work of preparing for my MFA midpoint. Between repairing densitometers, rebuilding my workflow, and deepening A Landscape Under Threat, life unfolded in parallel: a daughter married, a new home began to take shape, and Minneapolis pressed in with…
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American Repercussion
We are harvesting the generational impact of what was planted by our elders. How we respond to the consequences of Progress will determine the future of the environment that sustains us. These photographs were taken in the summer of 2025 in Minnesota. Their subjects include rivers, forests, and urban landscapes; splendour and disarray. They are…
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Reconnection
Travelling across the UK, I was struck by the contrast between the enduring presence of monuments and the evolving needs of our global community. As symbols of the past, their relevance is now questioned as the challenges of today grow more urgent. This project explores the tension between permanence and impermanence, juxtaposing rigid monuments with…
