The project emerged from performance-based research into stability on the foreshore of the Thames. Alongside developing ‘characters’, I produced an anchor, folding easel/ viewfinder, stool/belt assembly and mud shoes to access the silt of the foreshore. The final performance was both intricately planned and intuitively made up, ending with a crude sketch of the horizon.

This provoked the design of an archive of subjective and objective readings of the site, designed to be forgotten and misremembered by generations long after we can predict. These imagined re-occupations of the site include a twitchers’ squat, a disaster relief centre/commune, and lastly, a farmstead. As such, the building itself becomes an artefact, configured to take new forms for new functions.