Sophie Standford

The Unearthings
A Rural Idyll
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A Rural Idyll Selected Works

Breath



2020
single channel colour HD video | 1’24” | sound
Searching for the human in an industrial Breckland landscape, Norfolk, UK
“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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