Thinking about a 'rubbish tip archive' offers me a way to think about about materials within landscapes across time. It offers me a a series of reminders that time and landscape are interconnected in ways that are sometimes hard to conceive. By thinking about landscape through discarded materials, and the more-than-human forces working on and around them, contrasting time frames of those materials and forces come into focus. My particular rubbish tip archive, along Kings Weston Lane on the edge of Avonmouth, changes quickly. A new warehouse has appeared. There are cranes which are taller than the trees, but not as tall as the turbines. I re-read the archeological report of the area, of Catherine's Farm farmhouse which was demolished after 2006 and again think of Merebank, the medieval flood defence bank. It's behind the site of the new warehousing and future storage and logistics spaces. I imagine Merebank sleeping, waiting for future rising waters when it can play a part in the place again.
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