INSTALLATION

BARN ON THAMES, OXFORDSHIRE, UK, 2007

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 person’s boundaries and their natural extensions. The space tries to preserve the future: seeds and specimens 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.