The Unearthings
A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
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single channel colour HD video | 8’28” | sound
The protagonist follows a fugitive, formless footpath across a monocropped field of wheat. Moving through the landscape, their presence is inferred. A rhythm and repetition of each pause for breath and ominous distant rumble, reflects the uncompromising demands of industrial farming. The discomforting distortion of the wind against footsteps evokes heartbeat fluctuations; an aleatory effect caught by the swing of the microphone in the momentum of walking. The voice whispers a foreboding to the proximity of this forlorn landscape, contemplating the irreparable chemical effects.