concrete foundation from the 1920s sits fractured, silent, and long out of use. Two walls remain, one broken and split open by time and pressure. In the frame a mature pine tree rises—a force of renewal that has destabilized the structure. Around its base, younger trees sprout upward, threading a new ecology through a space once shaped by industry. Bankhead, once home to 4,000 coal miners and their families, dissolved into obsolescence when the mine closed in 1922. The photograph marks this layered inheritance: industry giving way to nature, permanence cracked by growth, and livelihoods uprooted by the collapse of energy regimes. Those Uprooted is a quiet reminder that when energy regimes crack and fall into demise, they often take entire ways of life with them—leaving behind not only decrepit structures, but the stories of workers and families forced to move on.
- Collections: Persistence, Obsolescence and Renewal