I’m so grateful to Tobias for his thoughtful composition, footage and patience – it took us a while to get the mood and pacing right. After admiring each other’s creative work online for a long time, last year we started a conversation which unfurled into this collaboration. I hope it will be the first of many!
I shared a voice recording of a piece I’d written about a cryptid, the six-winged butterfly and he wrote this guitar piece to accompany it. I was astonished. The idea to turn it into a film came later… we sent each other clips, mine from the wooded Calder Valley in Northern England and his from the German coastline. Collaging these together speaks to ideas I’m always coming back to: the whole reflected in the parts, distance and fragmentation, entanglement and interconnectedness, gathering.
It has been a moving process putting this together. Without that specific intention it has become something that feels so True and essential to me and I’m really really pleased to share it. As it was written in spring, it felt important to release it into the world when the celandines were flowering again, not to let another year pass. I told Tobias I was challenging myself to get it finished before I saw any wood sorrel flowers, and I’ve managed, but that’s not to say that I haven’t been avoiding a certain path in Nut Clough Woods…
“It’s one of my favourite ways of being: amongst the trees, making strange shapes, looking through the lens and adjusting my posture to compose a picture. I’m curious. I sometimes describe it as an unselfconscious flow yet I’d also say it’s when I feel most myself."
“I feel the loss to come and I feel the aliveness of the moment.”
Thank you also to friends who gave feedback and encouragement along the way and thank you to Jarod K. Anderson and the Cryptonaturalist podcast for the inspiration.
https://cryptonaturalist.com https://tobiaswilden.com
Where do you find your flow? 🍃
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