Environmental Storytelling - Trip to a forest of rocks

For an exterior location, I went on a walk in a woods near my house that previously have never explored before to become inspired.

I loved the feeling of being surrounded by all the trees and quickly became inspired to draw trees and examine the close texture of the bark;

The woods natural element had been destroyed somewhat by man. Throughout walking I saw junk, fly tipped and litter.

For example a rusty bike, abandoned;

quite a poignant photo I feel.. It demonstrates our mentality in this century.

I also came across what looked like a massive chimney just left on its side;

It had been covered in graffiti and lay there on a bed of grass, looking so out of place and unatural, quite striking.

After sketching and walking for about 10 mins I came across a hill with deep tyre track grooves in the mood, a stark contrast to the natural environment that surrounded me, to see something so manufactured and unnatural. I climbed up the hill and was greeted with a chilling surprise;

Nothingness. Deforestation. Desolation. Apocalyptic. Destruction. Lonliness. Alien. Expanse. Quite. Unlived. Stillness. Silence. Rocky. Explosive. Death. Isolation. Vast. 

Were the words that instantly came into my head and I wrote them down as I stood there looking round at this destruction.

I began to explore the landscape.

Abandoned rubble and wreckage. What did this used to be?

I was intrigued by these very sinister looking posts, standing tall with a metal bar poking out the top. What were they the foundations of?

This industrial looking piece of trusty metal was also interesting, physically and interesting as to what it used to be.

On the horizon buildings lay half abandoned and destroyed.

Charred pieces of wood reinforced this explosion image in my head.

I climbed up onto the highest point of the land and looked round. It was chilling to see so much of nothing. Just rock, apocalyptic rock. 

The campfire representing survival and the abandoned bike all paint a picture of death, like human life is drained from this landscape, which is ironic as human life drained the life from this landscape in the first place, deforesting it and turning it into a quarry.

I even came across warnings for it, this further enhances the sinister element too.

I feel very inspired by this trip, it turned out to be a lot more than I expected of a "forrest walk".. The feelings I witnessed were very powerful, It made my hairs stand up when I came across it.. Just seeing a vast landscape of nothing is hard wired into us to fear, for some odd reason.

In my drawings I want to put these feelings onto paper through different mediums.