Brydie Singleton

Time in Motion(s)

The site is located in Hawthorn. It began as a clay pit for the Old Upper Hawthorn Brickworks site established in 1883, being the largest brick manufacturer in Victoria at one point. It closed in the Great Depression, leaving a huge hole in the landscape. In 1972, the council acquired the land and used it as a rubbish tip. Once it was filled, they let it rest, and in 1996 it was turned into a park, named Fritsch Holzer after Augustus Fritsch and the Holzer brothers who set up the Brickworks.

I chose this as my site of exploration due to its layered history. Having lived two streets away from it my whole life, I have my own narratives attached to it. Beyond this, there is a deep sense of collective memory embedded into this layered landscape.

A river once flowed through the site; wattle was thick.
However, once the clay pit was found; it was dug out.
Once excavation was exhausted; it was packed in again.
Today it’s a sea of picnics; pets and planting.
We discover it again.

Flowing
Digging
Packing
Playing

The Atlas is broken down into four stacking boxes, each speak to a shifting time frame, to the forces that were acted upon on it.

Time in Motion(s)

You are invited to excavate, scrummage through the stack; slowly unpack.
Through poems, soundscapes, fossil artefacts, maps, collages and photography.
Through interaction comes discovery.
Feel, touch, hear and listen to the echo of the sites’ many histories, which still reverberate through it today.

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