Devil's-bit Scabious (Succisa pratensis) rises through our post-industrial landscapes like small blue galaxies hovering above the transformed earth. Each flower head reveals itself as a community of tiny florets, working together to create something greater than its parts.

These Velvet Shanks are winter's rebels, thriving when all else retreats. Rising in proud clusters, their viscid caps glisten like caramel against the rotting wood in the weak winter sunlight.
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Image from the 'Transformation' series of Hidden Landscapes.
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"Hidden Landscapes" documents the evolution of former colliery lands in Northeast England, revealing layers of change in such post-industrial spaces.