A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
About
@hortus_silvam
2021
Moving image
Arion ater and Tandonia budapestensis perform a meditative, syanthropic ballet.
Single channel colour HD video with stereo camera sound and text
Excerpt: 36 sec
Cinematic screening: 19 mins 33 sec
Yet a mysterious expectancy emerges
from the ephemeral, rhythmic repetition of cycles and seasons,
where time confuses and dissipates;
in this place
Location: Forest Garden, Suffolk
The Forest Garden Project is a developing concept which exists somewhere between ecological research, quiet activism, ritual, experiment and performance. A space of contradiction, slowness and listening in collaboration with the flora and fauna. In response to a search for the ‘rural idyll’ in places of increasing marginalisation, where the rural and industrial intersect and elide; where genetically engineered technologies turn fields into labs blurring the boundaries between the natural and the synthetic. The Forest Garden Project attempts to counter this lonely place of silent disquiet which reflects a bewildered disbelief at the damage we wreak on the natural world.
forest garden, quiet activism, environment, time, close-up, microcosm
© Sophie Standford