Thursday, 20 April 2017

Wilderness Returns

I came across this building the other day and was fascinated by how it was slowly being reclaimed by the wild.  It is probably a military building dating from World War II and must have lain unnoticed for decades after it was abandoned and a forestry commission plantation grew around it.  Now the plantation is beginning to be felled it has been revealed once more.  I wonder what it's fate will be once the whole of the woodland is felled.  I was passing in the middle of a bright day - not ideal conditions for photography - and drove past, but on reflection returned, wondering how much longer it would be there.

I am reminded of a project I want to undertake to extend my BOW project: that of walking the eleven mile length of the Louth Navigation from the town to the sea at Tetney in order to record how the old industrial aspects (locks and warehouses) are reverting to wilderness since it's abandonment nearly 100 years ago.  This will combine my contextual studies work on wilderness with my BOW project of walking.








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