The Unearthings
A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
About
@hortus_silvam
2019
Performative action; documentation as moving image
Winter frost glistens on the skin of a wizened quince fruit from the forest garden, where off camera the artist gently breathes onto its icy, frosted skin.
Single channel HD video | short film | colour | 4’33” | sound
The warmth from her breath slowly, imperceptibly at first, starts to melt the surface. Off screen the microphone intensifies engine sounds from vehicles driving by suggesting the environmental issues of pollution, damage, reliance and dependency.
Location: Forest Garden, Suffolk
The Forest Garden Project is a proposition, a developing concept which exists somewhere between ecological research, quiet activism, ritual, experiment and performance. A choreography of inter-disciplinarity. A space full of contradiction, where time confuses and dissipates. A site for the interrogation of the relationship between nature and culture, wilderness and order, freedom and control, and for the gathering of many different species not determined by human will; an active dialogue with living material under the open sky.
quiet activism, climate change, environment, time
© Sophie Standford