Wait-a-minute
colour
HD video with stereo sound, 2019
Duration: 1’46”
Location: East Anglia A tangle of rural tension and complexity.
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