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Pat Grant

An excerpt from Pat Grant’s Vanish Coast. Various coastal buildings in sepia and sunset orange, pink, yellow colours

Vanish Coast

Pat Grant, White Horses, March 2016

Surfing magazines are full of fantasy landscapes

The image of a breaking wave is kind of a lie.

It refuses to acknowledge the moments of before or after,

moments when things are less than perfect

(Note: this essay is on Pat Grant's website and was published in Issue 40 of White Horses.)

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