“THE LANGUAGES WE SPEAK EVOLVE AND AS THEY DO WORDS SHIFT CONTEXTS AND BECOME INFUSED WITH NEW MEANINGS. WILD THEN IS MERELY ANOTHER SUPERLATIVE, ANOTHER WAY OF STATING ‘VERY GOOD’. IT IS NOT ONLY A DESCRIPTION OF IMPENETRABLE FOREST, IMPOSSIBLE SUMMITS AND BATTERED COASTLINES.”
The images were striking: climbers in brilliant colours clinging to even brighter holds snaking up a stained grey wall. You can’t tell from the photos, but the climbers are ascending an enormous concrete stack, the highest chimney in Europe, on Slovenia's Trbovlje Power Station.
Below, in the soft focus of the world left behind, we make out some squat buildings, a river runs through them and there are hints of forest in the corner.
The images gave me a jolt, of the kind that you get when all the elements of a scene are recognisable yet there is an undercurrent whispering that they should not be together.
