A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
About
@hortus_silvam
The Archive (collage on paper)
2020- ongoing
Collage Series, 21x30cm
Handwritten music manuscripts, printed anotated notes, graphite, ink, gouache, photographs, paper
How do you sort and care for the archive of another artist? The unbearable proximity, the handwritten manuscripts and notes; regret for the unspoken dialogues. A palimpsest of papers bearing the visible traces.
Estate of Patric Standford (1930-2014), British Library, London and Suffolk
When does holding on become self-destructive? Absence Presence is an ongoing project of visual laments, exploring inter-generational aspects of loss and grief.
archive, objects of grief, memory, collage, palimpsest
© Sophie Standford