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A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
On paper
In sound
@hortus_silvam
Single channel HD video
stereo sound
2019
Duration: 1’46”
Location: East Anglia
A tangle of rural tension and complexity.
Instruction and performative action; walking a section of public footpath; scoured by barbed, arching stems that immediately embrace the moving body.
On this local public footpath brambles (Rubus fruticosus) grow with abandon. Holding the camera and recording the sound, the artist instructs body, space and movement in the rural landscape.
‘Wait-a-minute’ is a colloquial name given to various prickly, prodigious plants around the world that can catch onto passers-by.
snarl of bramble
bramble tangle
long and thorny
arching stems
hardy and determined
barbed boundary
forensic edge