Tim Ross

And as he was ploughing the field, all these shards of pottery were coming up behind the plough.

And he thought, what the heck is that?

And there were ancient bits of pottery, shards of...

pots, archaeology.

He took his T-shirt and turned his T-shirt into like a bag and sort of was filling it with all the stuff he could pick out of the ground behind this plough and take it.

And that stuff's still at home.

He's still got it.

And he organises his collections of objects and remains and shards and remnants, like memories, which I think is beautiful because it's not minimalist.

I mean, this house is very, very, very well organised.

But it's designed to absorb things and stuff.

And I took a photograph from where we were sitting in the dining room.

The whole building is sort of embraced.

It's like a pair of open arms, isn't it?

And you sit in one wing and you look into another and into another.

And the kitchen had a bag in it and I think some remnants of somebody had made tea or coffee and there were some car keys.

All the usual stuff.

Yeah.

And in most homes, in most kind of beautiful architect-designed homes, that kind of stuff you want to clear away for the photography.

And I thought, it's actually so beautiful.

It just absorbed life.