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In the Forest Garden Selected Works

Bramble heart

2021
Single channel video with stereo sound
Duration: 1’02”
Location: Forest Garden, Suffolk
With reference to the hardy native Rubus fruticosus pioneer plant, with lethal thorns and long, arching stems that keenly develop deep suckering roots. A reminder that the forest garden lies undecided between meadow, wasteland, woodland or forest.
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

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