wait-a-minute
exploring the meaning of rural in a fragile landscape

snarl of bramble
bramble tangle
long and thorny
arching stems
hardy and determined
barbed boundary
forensic edge



2019
Single channel HD video with stereo sound,1’46” 
© Sophie Standford
wait-a-minute is a colloquial name given to various prickly, prodigious plants around the world that can catch onto passers-by. 

Rubus fruticosus, or bramble, quickly extends its vicious, predatory arms into the footpath as it hunts for fresh areas to grow; nature fighting back with plants that can have an unsettling, vengeful power to ensnare us.


© Sophie Standford, 2024