Informed by the spacious expanse of countryside that surrounded me as a child, I take an alternative view of the landscape and find myself drawn to lost, empty places such as a view from the roadside, usually only seen flashing past through a car window, or the outskirts of a city.
I love to find areas of land that have gone feral, open space or wasteland amongst the urban sprawl. These in-between, unnoticed areas of land seem forgotten and separate, creating a mental sense of space as well as a physical one.
With this distance, I can gain a little perspective and capture the markings of our gradually spreading man-made sprawl, while stepping back from the civilisation that made it to witness a grander scheme, where visual geography ebbs and flows to economic and social changes.
