Sophie
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A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
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In sound

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A Rural Idyll Selected Work

Breath



Single channel colour HD video with stereo sound, 2021
Duration 1’24”
Location: Breckland, Norfolk
Searching for the human in an industrial landscape.

‘Vast, flat, sandy monocrops lie beneath floating, row cover; a semi-transparent polyethylene sheeting. The rhythmic billowing, like ocean waves in the wind corresponding to my breath.’

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