Bramble heartBramble heart
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
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