STILLS
An exhibition of beautifully printed, large monochrome prints by Bread & Butter master printers in Bristol, STILLS emerged from woodland work and play, exhibiting at a solo show in Aldeburgh (with Anything Moving playing on another floor).
Print Deatils: Edition of 13, signed and dated on back / / Omega Rag 310 GSM pigment photographic prints. (Fully archival lasting 150 years at museum quality) / / Available to buy here.
Art and play practices behind STILLS:
Sticks
Finding & talking to sticks, and if they like, naming them, feeling out if the stick is willing to come with us.
Statues
Devise human/animal statues. Guess which we are. Talk about how it makes us feel to hold these physical positions.
Listening
Cover both eyes and using ears like lenses, listen to the furthest and nearest sounds – then remove hands to see the woods in their full glory. We have gone from close up to wide lens.
Connect
Eat, tell stories & recount our dreams.
Hide & Seek
Play hide and seek, and recall what we saw and what we heard when we hid or were hunting.
Prompts
Work with prompts such as ‘make an image that is part human and part animal’, ‘take a picture of a young person who has become old’, ‘make a picture of folk who live in the woods’.
100 Steps
Count 100 steps and become our wild selves
Seeing
Cover 1 eye. Make a fist with our other hand and, placing this over the open eye, look through a tiny hole and examine our sticks’ texture, detail.
Play
Play ‘Fugitives’, ‘Kidnaps’, ‘Massacre’ and ‘Zombies’.
Darkness
Nightfall. The woodsman puts out a lamp for us. Hornets, moths and bats. Stargaze, dream and imagine.