FLICKERS OFF THE PATH
Commissioned by Brighton Festival 2010
Flickers: Off the Path is about being alone in the woods; getting filthy making dens; being scared of what you might find there. It opens a window to the presence of those who keep hidden but leave evidence, compelling us off the path into hidden places where curiosities may be found: fence eating trees, a pair of pants caught on barbed wire, a lost wall in the middle of a wood, a t-shirt at the mouth of a fox hole.
Referencing Samuel Palmer’s drawings and the psychic landscapes of Mary Webb, Flickers: Off the Path looks at how our present landscape, interrupted by human debris and deserted by those who once worked it, affects those who walk there. It explores the urge to be of a landscape, rooted there looking out, with the discovery that it is not a comfortable place to be.
Commissioned by Brighton Festival 2010
Flickers: Off the Path is about being alone in the woods; getting filthy making dens; being scared of what you might find there. It opens a window to the presence of those who keep hidden but leave evidence, compelling us off the path into hidden places where curiosities may be found: fence eating trees, a pair of pants caught on barbed wire, a lost wall in the middle of a wood, a t-shirt at the mouth of a fox hole.
Referencing Samuel Palmer’s drawings and the psychic landscapes of Mary Webb, Flickers: Off the Path looks at how our present landscape, interrupted by human debris and deserted by those who once worked it, affects those who walk there. It explores the urge to be of a landscape, rooted there looking out, with the discovery that it is not a comfortable place to be.
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