Time’s River
Publication 2025
This project is situated at Thames Craft Dry Docks along the Thames foreshore, collecting animal bones through mudlarking to explore the river as a material archive. The bone fragments scattered across the mudflat form a fluid, organic archive awaiting reading and re-cataloguing.
Through identifying, researching, and imagining these bones, mudlarking becomes an embodied practice of archival reading—extracting historical information while re-archiving it through poetic creation. The project employs palindromic poem structures and dragon-scale binding, both gesturing toward the river's temporality: materials and memories circulate and overlap here; all originates from the river and ultimately returns to it. Today is yesterday's tomorrow, and tomorrow's past, churning eternally like the tides.
This project is situated at Thames Craft Dry Docks along the Thames foreshore, collecting animal bones through mudlarking to explore the river as a material archive. The bone fragments scattered across the mudflat form a fluid, organic archive awaiting reading and re-cataloguing.
Through identifying, researching, and imagining these bones, mudlarking becomes an embodied practice of archival reading—extracting historical information while re-archiving it through poetic creation. The project employs palindromic poem structures and dragon-scale binding, both gesturing toward the river's temporality: materials and memories circulate and overlap here; all originates from the river and ultimately returns to it. Today is yesterday's tomorrow, and tomorrow's past, churning eternally like the tides.
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