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The material representations of history so often just stuff: cast concrete memories, or just bags of concrete, Keifer's lead, every undergrad's duffles of weighty sand - masses of time connoted by its mulch, by abject material resembling eyelid crust - trying to represent the raw stuff of time before its conversion to history. That artistic representations of time/history so often take on this trope seems almost a sociological phenomenon, why do we equate trash with history, with dumping grounds of material.