A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
About
@hortus_silvam
2019
instruction; performance; moving image; sound
A tangle of rural tension and complexity.
Single channel HD video | short film | colour | 1’46” | sound
Gallery | Site specific exhibition: continuous loop with sound
snarl of bramble
bramble tangle
long and thorny
arching stems
hardy and determined
barbed boundary
forensic edge
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.
Location: Suffolk, UK
A rural idyll is a theme the artist keeps returning to, concerned with the concept of ‘nature’, and questioning the perceived ‘rural idyll’ of the East Anglian landscape. Wait-a-minute builds on the tradition of walking as art practice.
landscape, rural, environment, marginalisation, walking, listening, entrapment
© Sophie Standford