Roads open doors into pure environments. After opened, the result is often one of invasion allowing the once pristine landscapes and ecosystems to become littered and exploited.

Photo by Christoph Vandercam

The discarded reusable bag, ‘et la nature vous dit merci!’, now cluttering the ground, wasted, speaks for itself. The location is Charleroi, imbedded within the Pays Noir. The city was able to boom after a bridge was built in the 17th century, connecting it with roads to the rest of civilization and allowing population growth and industrial activity.