Wood For the Trees (2024)
Wood For the Trees is a new site specific artwork that plays on the saying “you can’t see the wood for the trees” – the idea that you can’t always see the whole situation clearly because you’re looking too closely at the small detail of what is right in front of you.
The work juxtaposes man made digital structures against the organic and seemingly chaotic forms of nature. Scattered lights illuminate the woodland, highlighting the colossal power of nature, creating a dialogue with the surroundings and those who inhabit it.
The trees call and lights sing in response, backwards and forwards it goes, sometime in sync, often not. The woodlands sing and respond allowing form and relationships to emerge, inviting inhabitants to consider the emerging connections to the space and each other.
The work continues Squidsoup’s ongoing explorations into the idea of presence. A feeling of perceived movement, energy and form, created from the digital and occupying physical space. The result is a unique and delicate experience, a fluidic, transformational artwork that manifests itself as light, sound, movement, at the boundary of perception, liminal, in flux and never still.
Wood For the Trees was commissioned by The Lost Garden of Heligan for Light Gardens 2024.
Photos: Squidsoup
