Sophia Wolfe

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Garden Ensamble
Partnering with living plants, I create site-responsive stop-motion animations. At my local creek, I search for a plant that seems eager to collaborate. Once discovered, I gently guide its limbs with wire, moving image by image. I respond to its form, its timing, its wisdom. Once our pas de deux is complete, I delicately remove the wire, and the plant recedes back into its status quo, unharmed. Our only trace is the documentation, my presence visible in the occasional frame in which my shadow leaks in or my feet shift the grass. Recently, I’ve begun animating potted plants. As I continue this work, I am interested in the differences between the egos of the free and the isolated.