The group residency ‘Woods to Where Else’ (Nov 2017 to Jan 2018) was based in Kings Wood, near Ashford, Kent. It was commissioned by the Stour Valley Creative partnership.During my stays there I took photos and video clips in the woods and spent some time with the splitters - a team of forestry workers who cut and split wood for fence posts. From material gathered, I made 'Bruised Ground', a short video playing with the notion that a wood, rather than being a collection of individual trees, is actually an entity in its own right; a sentient organism with a level of awareness and agency over what is happening to it. As such, this entity can create a sense of a watching presence in people passing through.

To watch the video click the photo below. Running time is one and half minutes.