This work explores the city as a material accumulation of time, juxtaposing archival photographs of the 1941 London Blitz with contemporary images of Blackfriars Bridge. Using the flag book format, the project employs a specific sculptural sequencing where footprints and photographs intertwine. This structure expresses a continuous misalignment, mirroring a city where imperial memory, dust, and ruins are never neatly arranged, but constantly erased and resurfaced.
The physical structure of the work functions as a curated repository of the riverbank. Found fragments—bricks, rust, and shards lost to time—are classified and sequenced within the media to forge connections between personal and urban memory. The narrative is structured into three distinct movements: Memory, where the city is presented as a gathering of dust from wartime destruction; Becoming, where moss and rust mark a reconstructive process within the cracks of a collapsed order; and Dwelling, where life re-inhabits the scorched earth.
From the perspective of dust, the work considers the boundaries between the visible and invisible. Pollution and discarded materials are viewed not as "dirty," but as sediments of urban time that nurture new narratives.