Barn on Thames is a small shed in a remote location. This space represents a state of paranoia about the present and future, about science, technology, communications, the duality of being continuously watched and in turn becoming a watcher. It exhibits a persons boundaries and their natural extensions. The space tries to preserve the future: seeds and specimines have been saved and cataloged, a meager amount of survival provisions are stored inside, old-fashioned maps are hung for direction, and architectural plans are laid out, preparing B. on T. to be fit for its natural exposure to the periodic flow and rise of the River Thames, until a river runs through it. Floruit Tamesis, floreat Tamesis.

Marsh Lock
From Wikipedia

Marsh Lock is a lock and weir situated on the River Thames near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, close to Mill Meadows.
Because the lock is unusually situated on the opposite side of the river to the towpath, a long wooden bridge carries the path out to the lock island below the weir, and then back again to the riverbank above the weir. This feature is unique on the River Thames. The lock, original weir and footbridge were designed by Humphrey Gainsborough, a local non-conformist minister, inventor and the brother of the artist Thomas Gainsborough.
The weir was reconstructed in 2004 by Mowlem PLC to a design by Halcrow Group.

"People recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobiles, hi-fi sets, split level homes... social control is anchored in the new needs which the consumer society has produced."
(Marcuse,1968:24)

Frederic Jameson (1997) even goes so far to argue the ‘‘death’ of the subject itself= the end of the autonomous bourgeois monad or ego or individual.’ The once-existing centred subject, in the period of classical capitalism and the nuclear family, has today in the world of organizational bureaucracy been dissolved.’ In art for instance, the end of the individual brushstroke has come to an end due to the mechanical reproduction of our time. ‘The result is that the ‘individual human body’ can no longer map its position in a ‘mappable external world, and such forced incapacity is symbolic of the wider ‘incapacity of our minds’ to map the great global multinational communicational networks of the modern world’ (1997:156)

The Barn on Thames is about Ben, who grew up in it. Ben who grew up in Braziers, near the Thames River. As a child, he would travel from the house that he lived in with his parents and his two brothers, to the Barn on the Thames. Ben on the Thames. Barn on the Thames. Ben would use chemicals from a set to make experiments inside the barn. Ben in the Barn. “”Once a pyromaniac, always a pyromaniac” he would say. He would walk to the Marsh Locke in Henley on Thames. There are 45 'Pound' Locks on the Navigation. As he grew older, the Thames grew closer. Houses were engulfed by the power of nature and the heating of the globe.

The mighty Thames was merely ameter away from the eroding grounds. The Barn on Thames was about to be the Barn in Thames. With pulleys, he lifted the shed, one side at a time and enough to fit a large floatilla underneath. The pallet was on wheels and he moved the structure as close as possible to the edge of the water.