IN/FLUX #1

This has been minted as an edition of one and is the first in a collection of ten photographs that I will release for ownership.

https://www.ashleyhampson.com/influxcornwall

First purchaser will have the option to receive a 50 x 40cm print using ultraHD photo paper, museum quality glass and a black oak frame.

In Victorian times Wheal Maid Valley was described as the richest square mile of land on earth. In 1852, the mine was amalgamated with Poldice Mine and throughout the 1970s and 1980s and was turned into large lagoons and used as a tip for two other nearby mines, Mount Wellington and Wheal Jane.⁣ ⁣ The site was bought by the Council for a price of £1 in 2002. An investigation by the Environment Agency that concluded in 2007, found that soil near the mine had high levels of arsenic, copper and zinc contamination and by 2012, it was deemed too hazardous for human activity.⁣ ⁣ Today, nature continues to reclaim the site and puts the scarred landscape in a constant state of flux.⁣