Red Totem Tree
Forest of Dean, UK, 2023
by Polly Tootal
This dead tree covered in ivy is turned into a totem by the use of red lighting that signifies blood, the life force. The tree was found in the Forest of Dean, a place with a historical significance that has changed over time: it was once a source of timber for the navy’s Tudor warships and in Victorian times became a major site of industry with coal mines dotting the landscape.
This image is part of Where The Flow Ends, a series documenting the Severn, the longest and most polluted river in the UK. Along its course, human life, industry and nature rise and fall over time, echoing the tides of the Bristol Channel.
Specifications:
Size 18x24″ open edition
Digital print on 189 gsm matt paper
Giclée print quality
Unframed
To know more details about this print see the Buyer Guide.
* Posters ship separately from all other items within the same order.
Forest of Dean, UK, 2023
by Polly Tootal
This dead tree covered in ivy is turned into a totem by the use of red lighting that signifies blood, the life force. The tree was found in the Forest of Dean, a place with a historical significance that has changed over time: it was once a source of timber for the navy’s Tudor warships and in Victorian times became a major site of industry with coal mines dotting the landscape.
This image is part of Where The Flow Ends, a series documenting the Severn, the longest and most polluted river in the UK. Along its course, human life, industry and nature rise and fall over time, echoing the tides of the Bristol Channel.
Specifications:
Size 18x24″ open edition
Digital print on 189 gsm matt paper
Giclée print quality
Unframed
To know more details about this print see the Buyer Guide.
* Posters ship separately from all other items within the same order.
Forest of Dean, UK, 2023
by Polly Tootal
This dead tree covered in ivy is turned into a totem by the use of red lighting that signifies blood, the life force. The tree was found in the Forest of Dean, a place with a historical significance that has changed over time: it was once a source of timber for the navy’s Tudor warships and in Victorian times became a major site of industry with coal mines dotting the landscape.
This image is part of Where The Flow Ends, a series documenting the Severn, the longest and most polluted river in the UK. Along its course, human life, industry and nature rise and fall over time, echoing the tides of the Bristol Channel.
Specifications:
Size 18x24″ open edition
Digital print on 189 gsm matt paper
Giclée print quality
Unframed
To know more details about this print see the Buyer Guide.
* Posters ship separately from all other items within the same order.
Polly Tootal’s photography has emerged out of a continual exploration of the possibilities of space between a variety of extremes; theatre/reality, the contemporary world mirroring history, transience/permanence, the bizarre in the banal.
Tootal’s ongoing topographic project Somewhere In England began in 2010 and is an exploration of undisclosed, anonymous landscapes in the U.K. Shooting mainly at dawn or twilight, these public places devoid of people appear otherworldly. Within the images she attempts to present a cultural critique on contemporary social issues whilst highlighting the idiosyncrasies of public space and illuminating the non-descript landscape in these large-scale works.
Concerned with how contemporary geopolitics restrict and displace different societal groups due to poverty and injustice - her work focuses on liminal zones, the outskirts of cities where urban and infrastructure meet, highlighting the chaos and control that power forces upon populations and the environment.
