"Amanda Thomson responds to the events of 2020, inspired in part by Wordsworth’s epic poem The Prelude. Commissioned by The Willowherb Review and Aerial.

In Still, Life, Amanda Thomson writes on being present, and contained, relatively speaking, in a rural, Highland location during lockdown. Accompanied by short filmic extracts she writes of an awareness of the slow unfolding of the year with the coming of spring and the attendant species of flowers and birds; what it means to be remote, and in a ‘rural idyll’ at this point in time when our connectivity to the world and what’s going on has never been so immediate and wide-ranging, considering ideas of precarity and what the sublime might mean in this early part of the 21st century and in these current time"