The rooms of a third-floor flat. Squares and rectangles
Two bedrooms. Mattresses on the floor. One double, three singles
Topographical memories lodged in the wooden cut-outs
Shapes that cushion the walls
A balcony, a concrete courtyard, an attic where the laundry dries
No cellar, no earth. Cement covers everything. Covers and a coat of paint
Kneeling in the half-light of the hedges.
Working with a spoon to loosen the soil.
The shapes are there. Sniffing truffles. Little erected tails.
They bring back fragments. Fragments of what alters the cells and carves the bones. Digging for crumbs and a few leaves of parsley.
Nothing to number. Gravels where a lizard crawls.
There are different types of excavation, but they all involve digging holes in the earth.
One of the purposes of excavation is to prepare a site for construction.
This involves removing earth, stones and other materials to create a flat,
stable foundation for a structure.
Excavations that exceed a depth of 4.5 metres are considered to be deep excavations.
There are different levels of excavation: the top layer of soil, the underlying layer of soil, the rock that can be extracted using equipment such as explosives.
Excavation services include earthworks, digging trenches, shafts, tunnels and underground passages.
Inside the excavation were the remains of something huge