Experiment 1
Anxious roots: The rhizome, the radicle and the epiphyte.
This year long experiment involved videoing many uncertain attempts to cross the threshold of Grizedale Forest, accompanied by a 1.7 metre red balloon.
It explored our anxieties about forests- including the uncanny nature of the forest itself, getting lost or losing your way in the forest, and fear about losing part of a forest’s biodiversity either through felling trees, or the affects of climate change.
Rhizomes, radicles and epiphytes are botanical terms defining plants’ different types of root systems. The video involved simultaneously shooting with two cameras- a floating epiphytic one suspended below the balloon, and a ground based radicle one which observed from a distance. The experiment referenced Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomic thinking, as described in their book, A Thousand Plateaus….
Images include Grizedale sited artwork: The Living Wood by Anthony Holloway.
This year long experiment involved videoing many uncertain attempts to cross the threshold of Grizedale Forest, accompanied by a 1.7 metre red balloon.
It explored our anxieties about forests- including the uncanny nature of the forest itself, getting lost or losing your way in the forest, and fear about losing part of a forest’s biodiversity either through felling trees, or the affects of climate change.
Rhizomes, radicles and epiphytes are botanical terms defining plants’ different types of root systems. The video involved simultaneously shooting with two cameras- a floating epiphytic one suspended below the balloon, and a ground based radicle one which observed from a distance. The experiment referenced Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomic thinking, as described in their book, A Thousand Plateaus….
Images include Grizedale sited artwork: The Living Wood by Anthony Holloway.