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Whenever I am driving on the M6 motorway past Birmingham, I always try to stop and walk around under ‘Spaghetti Junction’ or given its official name, ‘Gravelly Hill Interchange’. It is a peculiar and large urban landscape that can be strangely quiet, with only the rumbling of the vehicles many metres aloft in the background and just like the road above the area is a thoroughfare for pedestrians, cyclists and people in barges on the canals or using the towpaths to run on. However, there is now an ongoing  system of maintenance on the structure itself and although my main interest is in photographing the people passing through, I am also looking at the landscape itself and I always find it strange the way construction (maintenance) workers often discard perfectly good and usable items – like protective gloves.