A handful of items picked up on the Thames foreshore. A fragment of ruby glass and of yellow flashed glass; a piece of manufactured china with an ancient Greek meander pattern; a piece of blackened and petrified bone, laid on top of which was a wet fragment of newspaper showing an oriental eye. That these far-flung things could be found together - amidst a dense, tidal mass of more - begins to explain something of what the city feels like.

Made for Postcards From Europe. Artists from across Europe were asked to convey something real about the place they live and work.