The lives held in these arms

Commissioner: Forestry England and Signal Film and Media for a super/collider project titled Curating Climate.

4m34s
2022

The film opens a window into an immersive forest world with a soundscape created from recordings using different microphones. Many of the trees in Grizedale Forest feel ancient and as if they have watched the landscape change around them. As I listened through microphones, I thought about how many creatures one tree supports through its lifetime, including our species. During our commission, super/collider visited the forest with local participants from Barrow in Furness. We explored the different histories of Grizedale Forest and how it is being managed in the face of the climate crisis, with a series of visits between May and August 2022.

The images below are included in the exhibition as a collaborative photographic installation with Melanie King and the project participants.