2004-06-01
... ?Guardian Unlimited | Arts news | Exhibition celebrates the urban margins
"I think it's the most exciting landscape in Britain," said author Iain Sinclair, looking fondly at his photograph of an iconic object, discovered on a three day pilgrimage.
The photograph - and a twin image from his walking companion, the film-maker Chris Petit - shows a massive iron safe dumped in a ditch, one side gaping from the explosives which cracked it open as neatly as an Easter egg. "We wanted to bring it to the exhibition, but it proved a little tricky to move," Sinclair said.
