‘Once everything has been moved she attempts to create a barricade at the back door. Not for the frst time she feels the burden of this inheritance; each chair, each embroidered napkin useless in the face of the rising water and yet she takes comfort in the fact that these things would weigh the house down, ensuring it remained fixed to the ground that is now mostly silt.’
The House of Water, a hybrid text which used the domestic experience of a flood as a lens through which to consider memory, archives, commons and the climate crisis. This was presented at David Dale Gallery, awarded The Yellow Paper Prize for Art Writing and commended as an entry into the UEA New Forms Award.
An extract was published in Issue 2 of The Yellow Paper, alongside texts by Daniela Cascella, Melissa McCarthy, Margaret Salmon, Isabella Streffen, Jess Higgins, Timothea Armour, Sara O’Brien, Megan Rudden, Rodrigo Vaiapraia and more.
The text was accompanied by a series of small columns made of unfired porcelain, that reflect themes of memory and nostalgia that run throughout the piece. Unfired, they will dissolve if they come into contact with water.