I’m trying to represent the long term impact of human endeavour on local nature through allegory like a mediaeval artist might have (if they had a smartphone).

The horse’s skull is Roman and was found at Vindolanda. I was thinking of the “pale horse” ridden by Death in the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

My digital image, made with a modern smartphone, also has reflections of modern humans embedded in it. The Cyanotype was originally a commercial process for copying architectural and engineering designs.
Photolithography was a recent development in commercial printing.

In Northumberland the sound of the curlew is still a welcome sign of Spring but it is in national decline along with the thrush.
Together they stand for the unintended consequences of human technological progress over two thousand years.
(Cyanotype, overprinted with 3 colour Photolithograph.)