The Unearthings
A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
About
@hortus_silvam
2021
Performance; moving image; sound
‘Trees are an invitation to think about time and to travel in it the way they do, by standing still and reaching out and down.’
Single channel HD video | short film | colour | 3’17” | sound
the garden embraces
thoughts
trees wrap sadness
hide scars
distract and heal
and absorb
into their underground
conversations
tangled within their branches
swaying within their gentle dance
In response to words from Rebecca Solnit, the artist’s body responds to the imagined invitations from various trees in the forest garden. The title never moved beyond the working title of Fig Tree; the artist’s favourite tree in the Forest Garden, planted by her son in the Winter of 2014.
Location: Forest Garden, Suffolk, UK
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.
leaves, trees, dance
© Sophie Standford