turn your cloak for fairy folks live in old oaks, 2021

As time passes the den is no longer only used by Sop, but by others including the bees burrowed in the ground within the den, and a robin.

Michaela Gerussi was commissioned to perform a dance in the den, responding to its structure and the ritualistic experience of visiting it, the den silently witnessing.

A soundtrack based on field recordings made in the den accompanies, by Markland Starkie and MIDDEX. The title comes from an Old English folk saying to charm against the actions of fairies.

 

Still of film commissioned by Wellcome Collection for Rooted Beings exhibition, 2022.