Spoil Heap - Landscape after industry
Sneyd Hill was once part of the Sneyd Green Colliery situated in the suburban sprawl of Stoke-on-Trent. It is now a 'green space' or 'borderland' partly wild,and partly managed by the council. It is an example of how a post-industrial site can be regenerated through nature, and one that has now taken on a new role as a ‘green space’ in the city.
“The natural world is the refuge of the spirit, remote, static, richer even than human imagination”. – Edward O. Wilson, Biophilia
E.O Wilson used the term ‘Biophilia’ to describe our human impulse to experience and imitate nature. I often visit Sneyd Hill because I want to experience some kind of nature, and to find solitude. It remains a local place to escape, get lost, if only for a short while. The images are not 'landscapes' in the traditional sense, but could be perhaps more associated with the term 'equivalent' in capturing the notion of place and my subjective relationship with the place experienced. With this set of pictures I hope to convey a sense of what I found, and provide the potential to re-address our perception of these local wild spaces.
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