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This series ponders the strange frisson that is often felt to occur when technology is found in the landscape. The structures here are associated with detection; they are radars and telescopes that look out from their rural locations to something undetectable to the human eye. As landscapes, the images mobilise a sense of narrative, perhaps bringing to mind themes associated with science fiction or apocalyptic change. Counterintuitively, technology in the landscape can seem oddly picturesque. In spite of any reminder of human limitation, technology showing signs of age or abandonment can connect with an aesthetic of ruinous charm. In this way, the tussle between technology and landscape in the work is perhaps reflected in the shifting subject/object relationship as we endeavour to overlook any referral to the limits of human agency and enjoy the scene as something that serves our needs.