The Unearthings
A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
About
@hortus_silvam
2021
Performance to camera documented in moving image; drawing; writing
Unearthing a tenacious root, like a human heart; Rubus fruticosus a pioneer plant, with lethal thorns and long, arching stems that keenly develop deep suckering roots.
Single channel HD video | short film | colour | 1’02” | sound
digging in the soil, unearthing, revealing
the blackbird heralds
in full summer song
digging in the soil, unearthing, revealing
the severed heart of bramble
balancing, battling, mixed blessing;
nursing the new, neglectful nuisance
the blackbird heralds
in full summer song
forest garden, quiet activism, environment, time
A reminder that the forest garden lies undecided between meadow, wasteland, woodland or forest.
Location: Forest Garden, Suffolk
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 the Forest Garden Project.
heart, environment, magic realism, time
© Sophie Standford