Sophie Standford
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A Rural Idyll
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Absent Presence
Trace
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A Rural Idyll Selected Work

Breath




Single channel colour HD video
stereo sound, voice
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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