About
A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
On paper
In sound
@hortus_silvam
Single channel colour HD video
stereo sound
2020
Duration: 2’0”
Location: Forest Garden, Suffolk
The title makes reference to our mutual cooperation and assistance during the Coronavirus pandemic of 2019-2020.
The artist performs the hand washing code that became ubiquitous during the pandemic. Ash is recommended by the World Health Organisation as a soap substitute where there is no access to soap. Ash is also a symbol of mortality. Here the artist's hand washing routine becomes a desperate and futile act against the wind that threatens and frustrates her washing medium of ashes.