Mediums
8mm film
4k digital and drone formats
Audio
Partners and exhibitions
Leeds 2023
The title of this film work is a direct response from a UK government agency on why a large piece of government owned land could not be given forest status. This statement highlights the catastrophic fixation on financial values above all other value systems - even as climate and ecosystems continue to destabilise through human impact.
What about the value of health, or air, or biodiversity, how do we build new systems of value and dismantle bureaucratic structures that harm and no longer serve us?
Featuring 50 sites in Leeds that have the potential to be forests.
Exhibition text
I value the small shrubs breaking through the concrete. I value the grasses and the lichens. I value the Bee, Bombus pascorum and Hoverfly, Eristalis horticola, pollinating in the so called weeds
I value the Long Tailed Tit, Robin and Black Cap flying close by. I value the top soil that was removed, and the soil, mycelium and microorganisms that will take 500 years to recover
I value the air as it is now. And the Sycamore, Ash and Birch. I value the Kestrel that was in the sky that day
I value the diversity and the colours
I value the sounds, the ones I can perceive and the ones I can't
I value that I can experience this
And I will value it when it is gone