What is this rubbish?

A compendium of crap

A dictionary of discards

A wiki of waste

A space to explore the aesthetics and practices of dumping.

A record of the public disposal of private items over time in one small area of an ordinary suburb in a first-world city.

Apart from one or two exceptional items, every Dead Thing here was left and found within a few hundred metres of where I live. In fact many were recorded in my own back lane having been discarded by my neighbours.

Everything here has now disappeared.

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But I hate all these Dead Things – help me!

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