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The film blends autobiographical encounters with more factual natural histories, encountering puffballs, belonging, intimacy and embodiment, through a spoken poetic text exploring relations between human, plant and fungi kingdoms.
In the making, I crawled on my belly across a field in Cornwall with a macro lens to reduce the distance between my head and the earth. Taking my body on a feeling-led journey collapsed the default hierarchies that come with being human and upright and thrust me into worlds beyond my own. By foregrounding 'plant' as an element - rather than merely a backdrop to human activity - the work aims to subvert the traditional male gaze of natural history into an expanded, somatic, eco-feminist practice led by feeling, equality, sensuality and mutuality.
First shown for SLQS Gallery
Digital film, 8 minutes 03 seconds.
2024