He is stuck in the temporal bind: unable to see the present properly, he can also not find the past and so enters a dizzying perspectivalism in which he is always out of joint with time. To find the past can be to miss the present, and to enter into the present, as our local businessman in Beaumaris does, might be to miss its significance. The ruin never stops, for it is the ruin of time.
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Joshua Craze
above: The ruins of Baron Hill Estate, part of the Bulkeley family holdings Clay pipes found after the demolition of the Gallows Point boat sheds. Part of the exhibition ‘Fragments of the Past: What You Can Find Out From Small Things’
Clare Calder-Marshall
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