Over Flow is a collection of photographs capturing a set of urban aquatic tidal pools and the public architectures which surround them. These photographs are taken along the Indian ocean shoreline between St James and Glencairn Beachfront in Cape Town South Africa. The tidal pools in question, were all listed as ‘white only’ beaches under the Apartheid Government, defined through the separate amenities act.

Through this spatial analysis of these tidal pools as demarcated boundaries, these photographs inquire how these sites craft the ocean into an amenity, made to invite public access, and yet, invite a particular mode of access, one that is racialized, but also, that intervenes as being closed off and limited from the sea via constructed boundary walls.

Although Apartheid and subsequent Beach Apartheid has been abolished these tidal
pools, as urban ecological and ideological structures remain. These photographs seek to highlight the subtle and yet pervasive nature of what urban architectures remain within our streaming course to freedom.