Untitled (Stour Woods), 2013

Digital moving image

Developed for Cuckoo Farm Studios’ After Dark event in 2013, I tried to image what it would be like to contain an environment. It’s a moving image of the woods, quietly watching. A woods in the window.

Stour Woods is a traditional chestnut coppice woodland, near Wrabness, Essex, dating back to at least 1675. It was worked as coppice until the 1970s and coppicing has since been resumed by the RSPB, to whom the Woodland Trust has leased the land. Beside the chestnuts grow oak and the rare wild service tree and beneath, bramble, hazel, birch and aspen thrive.

The day I filmed this I saw a White Admiral, a rare butterfly, especially in East Anglia.