All of us Beings is a body of work made collaboratively with artist Alison Cockcroft (@alisoncockcroft), during a deep-winter residency on a small community farm.
Work was also made in collaboration with the children and staff of year 2 Chalford primary school, Roots, Seeds, Wild Clematis, Sheep Wool, Paper, Grass, Conifer, Alder, Fig, Ivy, and Beech.
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”Our work is itself a tangled story, made up of tangled relationships between us artists as settlers, in unfamiliar territory, negotiating and desiring connection. Treading gently on already contested ground.
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"We land in an unfamiliar land in winter: we are feeling in-to-place. Stretching towards, reaching towards one another and out, turning our attention inward and outward, tending to the many relationships between."
Keywords: contested land, tending, attending, ritual objects, soil preparations, land-ing, humans in the wider environment, territory, wintering, tension.