A Handful of Soil for the Whole Horizon is an ecology of images about the forest as a site in which humans are often destructively entangled with nature. It uses gestural excess to propose an expanded natural history in which the body is drawn into action, through touch or observation. Through small acts of force…
A Handful of Soil for the Whole Horizon is an ecology of images about the forest as a site in which humans are often destructively entangled with nature.
It uses gestural excess to propose an expanded natural history in which the body is drawn into action, through touch or observation. Through small acts of force or anxiety it produces disturbances that sabotage all notions of a separate, isolated nature. The work is influenced by theories of slow violence, which consider environmental change as incremental, silent and often invisible.
The work reinvents, re-enacts and re-contextualises illustrations and images from survival manuals, field guides and catalogues. These appropriations act as a comment on photography, as well as a metaphor for the forest as a landscape in constant transformation through encounters with people, animals and technologies.
