If not precisely the land of lost content, the rubble strewn backwater of the Birmingham canal network, with its scrapyards, stubs of old warehouse walls, and buddleia sprouting amid white-van parking spaces, is certainly the land of lost mischief for Roger Hiorns.
For example, an appropriate condensation of a sentence such as "The tornado carried off the roof of a local farmhouse, and reduced its walls and contents to rubble" might be "The tornado destroyed a local farmhouse".
It's all that remains of the school's once substantial collection of music instruments, a stark reminder of the destructive power of last year's earthquake which reduced the school and its contents to rubble.
A new order assembled from the rubble would give method precedent over content.
Others are teasing out the microscopic contents of dust scooped from sills, floors and rubble heaps in downtown Manhattan.
Hard to say for a family that has survived a war living a galaxy away from the rubble that still defines much of Europe--and yet is still far from content?
Holed up in the basement of a partially built housing complex near the centre of Basra, he was stuffing down the contents of his ration pack while others grabbed a couple of minutes' rest among the sand and rubble.
Trees crushed the rubble.
