In 2017 a move to Pakefield, south of Lowestoft, found Mary at the edge of landscape and confronted with a different set of questions to those posed by the Waveney river valley in Suffolk, where she had previously lived and painted.

Ancient cliffs tower over the beaches between Pakefield and Southwold and Mary started to ask how she might communicate her concerns about erosion and rising sea-levels, as the cliffs are gouged and worn by the elements.

The impermanent architectural forms provided rich symbolism, as human habitations perch on the edge of destruction and footpaths along the cliffs disappear.