The Unearthings
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 HD video | short film | colour | 19’33” | sound
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 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.
time, close-up, microcosm
© Sophie Standford