Woodland

An intervention

With this work I became interested in how banal places have an inherent eeriness to them, particularly a natural environment where something occurs clear explanation.

The shapes seem like spontaneous manifestations or could be seen as acts of natural graffiti that evoke passage through a place as part of a visibly repeated process, and is also a way of redacting the environment.

Influences include the film Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky, where the background eeriness permeates the world yet remains invisible until its effects are made clear, like radiation. The books Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts, and Feral by George Monbiot about rewilding the natural environment overtaken by agriculture. 

There is a patchwork of hidden properties and dimensions in space. This intervention tries to reveal some kind of a hidden cause-effect scenario, like an animal darting through the undergrowth unnoticed.