GOYT/GOING
VALLEY of the RIVER GOYT: a wilderness at the centre of a proposed route for a planned relief road M60 to A6, Stockport.
A unique cultural resource and landscape subject. The locations of the artist's images are marked on the road developers' map, below left. The full footprint of the relief road is published below right.
David Chandler hopes to record the legacy footprint of this ancient place on the memory map of Great Britain. To incorporate it into the tradition of recent British Landscape. To record agricultural livestock farming, recreational use, wasteland, footpaths, farm barns and outbuildings, field shapes, hedges and electricity pylon infrastructure as if it was all a great sprawling, unplanned, sparsely inhabited town. A green settlement that changes according to the seasons. Its architecture is built from tree morphology, its roads are paths made along fences and walker and horse rider desire lines.
It is a faunopolis; a place where wild creatures live and breed. A city of birds and small mammals. It is a landscape where artists will go; a semi public space, common land on the boundary of several suburban communities who use it for exercise and play. Authentic outskirts.
A unique cultural resource and landscape subject. The locations of the artist's images are marked on the road developers' map, below left. The full footprint of the relief road is published below right.
David Chandler hopes to record the legacy footprint of this ancient place on the memory map of Great Britain. To incorporate it into the tradition of recent British Landscape. To record agricultural livestock farming, recreational use, wasteland, footpaths, farm barns and outbuildings, field shapes, hedges and electricity pylon infrastructure as if it was all a great sprawling, unplanned, sparsely inhabited town. A green settlement that changes according to the seasons. Its architecture is built from tree morphology, its roads are paths made along fences and walker and horse rider desire lines.
It is a faunopolis; a place where wild creatures live and breed. A city of birds and small mammals. It is a landscape where artists will go; a semi public space, common land on the boundary of several suburban communities who use it for exercise and play. Authentic outskirts.