Project Title: Unstable Landscapes

I had been studying the curious coastal formations at Orford on the map, and was interested in the promontory of Orfordness, which seemed to have an extraterritorial quality about it. Stone by stone, over the period of millennia, it had shifted down from the north across the mouth of the River Alde, in such a way that the tidal lower reaches, known as the ore, run for some twelve miles just inside the present coastline before flowing into the sea.

W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn, 1995

The movement of waste in time remains embedded within the debris that are left behind. We can try to restore what once was there by combining the existing and the imagination of one’s memory. Yet, it will never be the same, one, whole. But was it ever? Orfordness was left behind after the war, its debris moving with the shingle landscape and repeated flooding. My proposal aims to restore the site and rehabilitate the violent memories associated with it. A crane collects debris from the river and moves them to a warehouse, where they are categorised and restored.