Edgelands
Edgelands is a term for the transitional, liminal zone of space created between rural and urban areas. These spaces often contain nature alongside cities, towns, roads and other unsightly but necessary buildings, such as industrial estates and rubbish dumps, at the edge of cities. It is an area where nature meets manmade. Man casually dumps its rubbish in woodlands and hedgerows but nature creeps into derelict factories to take back the landscape. We bury our waste, covering it to form a new landscape.
In this series, I have also included spaces where nature creeps into our cities; between the cracks in the pavement or the bricks in old buildings.
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