The Unearthings
A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
About
@hortus_silvam
2019
performance; moving image; sound; drawing
Strange moments of magical possibility, hovering on the edge of vision.
Single channel HD video with stereo sound and text
Cinematic screening: 2 mins 21 sec
Gallery | Site specific exhibition: continuous loop with sound
An improvised, unobserved performance in the Forest Garden, as an unfolding, personal ritual, immersed in processed field recordings of the location’s dawn chorus.
Location: Forest Garden, Suffolk, UK
‘The Unearthings’ is a generic title that encloses a series of flexible performative acts and interventions, involving a range of materials and repetitions, influenced and shaped by place.
re-imagining, myth, magic realism
© Sophie Standford