Tidbury spends hours exploring the hulls of small vessels, identifying naturally occurring compositions where peeling paint and oxidation mimic the look of soft pastels. In Delilah, the camera captures a specific intersection of color and form that suggests a shoreline or a distant horizon, blurring the line between industrial decay and organic beauty. The artist uses his background in photography to isolate these moments, finding recognizable features in the most unlikely, neglected places.

The work relies on the interplay between the physical reality of the boat and the technical precision of the print. By utilizing Giclée techniques on archival paper, the photograph sheds its digital origins to take on a tactile, material presence. The result is a study of how relentless environmental forces create unintentional art on the very objects meant to withstand them, resulting in a composition that feels both deliberate and entirely organic.