Albie Auchterlounie's ‘Concrete Jungle’, sat in the window with a startling yet still presence. Archaic. I wondered if this driftwooden being was making efforts to communicate. The materials seemed to emanate lost information, perhaps from the ancestors. Now and again I’d see the static rising from its antenna. I wondered if our ancestors walk amongst us now, like barely perceptible holograms of the heart?

Albie writes:

“I am interested in industry’s destruction of nature and how, when industry collapses, nature can retake a space. First there is nature. Then comes industry and like a living organism, it consumes to grow. Nature, it seems, must die so that industry can live.

But without human intervention, the structures of industry can’t maintain themselves, and without humans these structures decay. Mental rusts. Rooves fall in. Mortar crumbles and nature invades, or retakes a space.

On a long enough timeline, an ebb and flow can be witnessed. A life, a death, a rebirth. And in-between these moments. As industry dies and nature is reborn a third thing exists that is both and neither.”

Albie Auchterlounie is an artist based in the North-East of England.

You can see more of Albie’s work on his instagram.