Sophie Standford

The Unearthings
A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
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Absent Presence
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A Rural Idyll Selected Works

Wait-a-minute


2019
single channel colour HD video | 1’46” | sound

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. 

snarl of bramble
bramble tangle
long and thorny
arching stems
hardy and determined
barbed boundary
forensic edge
‘Wait-a-minute’ is a colloquial name given to various prickly, prodigious plants around the world that can catch onto passers-by.

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