Civilisation and Landscape – ‘The Forgotten Landscape’ Asturias, Northern Spain 
During 2007 we were invited to Asturias in Northern Spain to attend a conference on landscape and regeneration, where a presentation was given on our Mineral Industry Sustainable Technology research project  ‘Independent Quarry a new model for regeneration and new landscape for the 21st century' where we worked across designers, geologists, educationalists to develop new designs and the sustainable after use  designed Cultural Landscapes Stories of the Earth, with interpretation of landscape from an artistic, geological and cultural perspective.  The conference was accompanied by a sculpture symposium ‘civilisation and landscape’ with10 artists representing Northern Spain, Portugal and the UK (PSQT).   The sculpture, created by Hannah Sofaer and Paul Crabtree called  'The Forgotten Landscape' reflects the memory of a landscape with knowledge lost to nature symbolised by a river running through the stone into the pages of the book and washing away the writing – with the knowledge to be rediscovered by ourselves.  The sculpture was carved on four sides of a 9-ton block of Arsenica sandstone, quarried from the surrounding mountains, with the powerful sense and presence of the quarried block and the uplifted geology of the Asturias mountain range.

"…but [civilisations] themselves have lost their history, and point to silent monuments whose only language is a piece of broken stone".                                                                                           Cheiro. Cheiro's World Predictions. New Edition Reprint 1931