Cars in a wood: the elements

Leaves: wet decay, carpet/ random, smell of mould.  Decay means life.
Metal: sharp, jagged, uncertain, rust/solidity/smell of oil/ the metal core of the earth. We are the stuff that stars are made of.
Paint: peeling, temporary surface
Rubber: lasting, inflatable
Trees: The rhythm of the wood, the cycle of blanketing with falling timber and leaves and beetles, the sound of broken wood under foot.
The Earth: The uncertainty, the pit, the smell

Icon: The Car-  needs recognition/ personal link/ The ultimate fragility and can be recognised, just as it sinks back into the earth from whence it came and from where we come from.  And the poingnacy of the links that still be imagined.  The Temeraire would have had so much human drama caught up in its woodwork.