Tamesis, green greasy, river thames, Tamesis, dark one, how i love to sink my fingers into your muddy archive, smell your silt, hear your undulations, taste your acrid slime on my skin, my river, bone birther, pipe smuggler, carrier of ancient fat, and murky secrets, the resonance of our pagan rituals still find home with the eels in your water, forgotten, mostly, except by the dear ones, Tamesis, the imperial powers found a way to exploit you, your tides, your depths, your marshlands, your watery organs, harvested for ships like the hms nonsuch, and conquest of a shore that is not ours, and on that shore, human and animal organs violently and savagely harvested, again and again across years and decades, and still continuing

Tamesis (2023) is an installation created from 73 objects found in the mud of the river Thames at the approximate site where the HMS Nonsuch was launched, one of the first colonial ships to travel to what is now known as Eastern Canada. Related video and soundscore situate the objects in an immersive space for contemplation. The work was shown for the first time at the Institution of Knowledge a research-creation exhibition and symposium at the University of Alberta, organized by Natalie Loveless (the Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory) and Geoffrey Rockwell (the Kule Institute for Advanced Study)