A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
About
@hortus_silvam
2025
ongoing series of analogue photographs
35mm and 120mm, black and white, multiple exposure, self-process photographs
Exhibition: prints unframed ranging in size 10x15cm; 15x20cm
A series of photographs walking between layers of time and light in the Forest Garden.
Location: Forest Garden, Suffolk, UK
The Forest Garden Project is a developing concept which exists somewhere between ecological research, quiet activism, ritual, experiment and performance. A space of contradiction, slowness and listening in collaboration with the flora and fauna. In response to a search for the ‘rural idyll’ in places of increasing marginalisation, where the rural and industrial intersect and elide; where genetically engineered technologies turn fields into labs blurring the boundaries between the natural and the synthetic. The Forest Garden Project attempts to counter this lonely place of silent disquiet which reflects a bewildered disbelief at the damage we wreak on the natural world.
photograph, walking
© Sophie Standford