HOLME, Standard 8mm film transferred to digital with audio, 2022

HOLME, Standard 8mm film transferred to digital with audio, 2022

Extract, documentation and stills from HOLME, Standard 8mm film transferred to digital, exhibited at SPUDWorks, 2022

Extract, documentation and stills from HOLME, Standard 8mm film transferred to digital, exhibited at SPUDWorks, 2022

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    HOLME, Standard 8mm film transferred to digital with audio, 2022

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    Extract, documentation and stills from HOLME, Standard 8mm film transferred to digital, exhibited at SPUDWorks, 2022

Shot on standard 8mm film, HOLME documents a lone figure in the forest constructing a geodesic dome, which is subsequently obscured by fern fronds. At once emerging and concealed, the structure is analogous to other domed forms that have populated the forest – ancient earthworks, charcoal piles, brick kilns, bee skeps, benders & hollow concave scars, carved into the earth, from mid-20th century military bombing across Ashley Heath. 

HOLME responded to a period of research and site-specific walking around Godshill Ridge, in the north of the New Forest. Drawing upon the writing of herbalist and author Juliette de Baïracli Levy (1912-2009), who lived in Abbots Well near Frogham in the 1940s, the work considers how complex & interwoven power relations, kinships and histories are embodied within the soil and the sedges.

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Supported by 'Time, Space, Money Bursary' from a-n (2022) & Arts University Bournemouth

 

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