The Thames serves as a record of London’s history and the actions of the people that have inhabited it. The river has become a vessel, a turbid archive, thick with artefacts of London from across time. The river oozes waste of various descriptions, expelling this evidence onto its banks periodically.

The Thames not only hosts masses of waste from the current city, it also hosts histories of wastes from centuries of usage as both a river and a channel for waste. These artefacts take the form of shards — broken down, everyday objects that tell a story about the history of the city. I intend to stitch together the story these objects tell, completing and mending the objects as they might have been in the past, whilst using elements from the Thames: clay, water and gravel, as the glue to build them again