Riverside audio trail

The trail starts at Hertford Museum. If you’re joining part-way through, or listening from home, start with track 1 for an introduction.

Track 6 Audio Transcript

I brought that book to other people who still live in your world with an invisible thief who takes so much and together we drew rivers and visions of flowing water. Similar to yours but different, like a smudgy fingerprint. I took the shape of your river and built a structure that would support and channel these conversations, this community. I washed your shirts for the last time and then I ripped them into ribbons, physically processing this grief. I made bundles of Paul Smith and strips of checked Ben Sherman. I collected buttons from Marks and Spencers and found shiny corners of biscuit wrappers in the deepest seams of unpicked pockets. Wrapped onto a loom, shaped by our conversation, the strips of your shirts formed a riverbed.