A tower built from what the sea gave back

The work starts as collection: walking the Kokrobite shoreline and the streets behind it, gathering what has been thrown away and what the sea has handed back. Plastic bottles, mesh, offcuts, packaging — the detritus of a throwaway culture that was imported along with everything else.

Then it is sorted, cut, filled and bound. Young makers work alongside the artist on the ground, on mats and cobblestones, learning that the material in their hands is not waste but evidence — of a broken relationship with the earth, and of the possibility of mending it.

What rises from it is a tower: a mesh armature skinned in thousands of bottles, raised by ladder over several days. In daylight it reads as scaffolding and refuse. After dark, lit from within, it throws coloured light across the stone — and the same rubbish that choked the shoreline becomes the thing people gather around.

This is the argument the Foundation keeps making in different materials: nothing is inert, nothing is finished, and the distance between rubbish and reverence is mostly a matter of attention.