This detritus, man-made, earth-grown, was a kind of moat surrounding the building proper, this modern fortress, painted a yellow that was surely labelled Tuscan.
Not that you necessarily need to know, but her materials are discarded gillnets, ropes and plastics, the detritus of industrial man and consumption.
A series of scrape holes stretched across a broad front, littered with the recent detritus of fighting men - bullet casings, empty soda bottles and the odd scrap of uniform.
Books were literally wrested from rubbish heaps and the detritus of the white man's world.
(He says a true pier rat "leaves the pier cleaner" than when he arrived and helps unhook birds that get snarled up in man's detritus).
Eggleston's America is trashy and shrill, messed-up, beat-up, littered with man-made detritus.
The abundance of man-made detritus in the Biscayne Bay has given corals the opportunity to recycle our trash as substratum.
Part memoir and part disquisition on the psychological impulses behind the urge to accumulate, "Collections of Nothing" is a wonderfully frank and engaging look at one man's detritus-fueled pathology.
About 20 minutes into the movie, the scene shifts from these depopulated, detritus-lined spaces to a man working in front of an outdoor kiln.
Her home is messy, strewn with books and documents and the detritus of the two black men who live with her: Izaiah Dolezal, once her adopted sibling, now her adopted son, and Franklin Moore, her biological son, whom she had with her ex-husband, Kevin Moore.
His weary eyes convey the emptiness of a lonely man isolated in the detritus of a dream world that is evaporating before his eyes.
