Fenscape 18

bottisham-lock-170107-1I’m drawn to the landscape of the Fens.  They are a place of humbling, yet mind-expanding, soaring skies and distant horizons.  Their very flatness and the ruler-straight dykes, roads and power lines give them a strong and simple graphic quality.  On another level they represent fecundity and the ingenuity of humankind.

bottisham-lock-170107-2Then, under heavy skies the Fens become sombre and mysterious; empty switchback roads lead to remote farms where there might be ‘something nasty in the woodshed’.  The space becomes daunting, features are blurred.  Ingenuity fights a continuous battle to keep the waters back – not always successfully, as in 1947, and has given humankind a pyrrhic victory over nature.

Photos: River Cam near Bottisham Lock, January 2017

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