A lockdown 3 project with some fabric remains from the Ac Sidu piece shown in 2019. These fabric remnants were ‘associated’ with Crow Oak in one performance and then wrapped around the pot of my oak sapling used in the final filmed performance. The oak sapling & it’s understudy used in Ac Sidu were planted in Scrubs Copse later that year.
Marks were inspired by contemporary & 100 year old maps; and walks made this January lockdown.
From work in Progress with some orange tacking remaining – including the location of the planted saplings – to the work being shown in the Groundworks exhibition ‘Landscape & Attachment’ in the Three Storeys Gallery Cafe in Nailsworth.
I return to Scrubs Copse repeatedly, I’ve known it for decades; from near impenetrable jungle to managed ‘amenity’. Its past is visible, yet invisible to the walker, only revealed through archive and observation. I have left my mark in footsteps and oak saplings; and sewn the layers of its past into visibility in textile.
Acts of association made for the exhibition Confluence, that bound three oak saplings to place, came to fruition at the site of their final planting; where this textile underwent its association with the Copse through repeated actions: including plants material gathered for dyes.
UPDATE from the hang – unfortunately room could not be found by the curators for this piece so it’ll have to remain un-hung – I thought I’d leave this post in place though in lieu of what might have been.
I return to Scrubs Copse repeatedly, I’ve known it for decades; from near impenetrable jungle to managed ‘amenity’. Its past is visible, yet invisible to the walker, only revealed through archive and observation. I have left my mark in footsteps and oak saplings; and sewn the layers of its past into visibility in textile.
Acts of association made for the exhibition Confluence, that bound three oak saplings to place, came to fruition at the site of their final planting; where this textile underwent its association with the Copse through repeated actions: including plant material gathered for dyes.
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