"The Relationship between the Environment and the Body"
Section MS2, Hope Pearl Strickland
Keywords: film, environment, nature
This work explores the relationship between the environment and the body, approaching both not as separate entities but as interdependent systems of perception and energy. Drawing on rhythms found in natural, constructed, and virtual spaces, the project considers the body as a perceptual site through which the environment is continuously sensed, absorbed, and reconfigured.
Rather than positioning the body as an observer of the world, the work proposes perception as an active exchange, where movement, light, texture, and sound shape bodily awareness over time. Nature, urban structures, and digital space are treated as shifting conditions that influence rhythm and presence, revealing how the body adapts, resists, and dissolves within different environments.
The project operates through a methodology of layering and fragmentation, using archival traces, sensory textures, and rhythmic variation to activate memory as a physical experience rather than a representational one. Meaning emerges through density, repetition, and transition, allowing sensation to replace linear explanation.
By destabilising boundaries between inside and outside, human and environment, the work invites viewers to reconsider how perception is formed—not as a fixed viewpoint, but as a continuous process shaped by space, time, and embodied experience.