The Unearthings
A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
About
@hortus_silvam
research and development 2025
edible plants; photography; sound; writing
terminal
opposite
alternate
alternate zig-zag
clustered
hairy
quiescence
In Britain most tree growth occurs in spring and summer. During the growing season the tree produces buds ready for next years growth. These buds remain dormant during the winter and open in the following spring. Inside each bud are tiny preformed leaves, shoots or flowers.
Location: Forest Garden Project, Suffolk, UK
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, transition, transience, immersive, meditative, archive
© Sophie Standford