Water contamination, air pollution, or other plagues can cause people to leave their homes. When buildings, towns and cities are left behind, nature invades and fills the void.
“There’s a real mixture of emotions that includes horror, nostalgia, regret – but also a kind of thrill, a sort of sublime excitement.” says Tate curator Brian Dillon. For me as an artist ruined buildings filled with a kind of potential for new live.
"No matter how modern we are, no matter how much progress we make – it will all come to an end, it will all fall away just like the civilisations of Greece and Rome.” Brian Dillon
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