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Carolina Inlet — Tide & Quiet Light

Thursday, December 18, 2025 | By: Todd Suttles

C arolina Inlet carries the hush of water meeting land — not dramatic surf, but the steady give-and-take of tide and edge. My father keeps returning to this kind of threshold: forms that lean toward one another, light that decides when to stay and when to move on.

In the studio he begins with simple shapes, then listens for the pull between them. Carolina Inlet reads like that listening — a conversation between sandbar and channel, weight and lift. The color holds a quiet temperature, and the intervals feel tidal: approach, pause, return.

Carolina Inlet by Bill Suttles, mixed media on paper, 2025.

 

This reflection is part of the Suttles Continuum, our family’s living archive and storytelling project. Through it, we’re preserving not just the artwork, but the rhythm of an ongoing creative life — the sketches, finished works, and stories that connect generations. Each piece, including Carolina Inlet, adds another line to that story, reminding us that creativity follows its own tide.

Studio Notes

What steadies me in Carolina Inlet is the patience in the surface — no rush to declare, just the right amount of motion. The edges don’t argue; they cooperate, and the calm arrives from that agreement.

It reminds me to let the work breathe: to trust the tide of choices, and to let the image decide when to come in and when to pull back.

 

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