Always subtle and often elegiac, Rob Crosse’s work across film, photography, and installation probes the qualities of everyday human ritual and the spaces and objects that impact the meanings of such. Bodies exercising, figures moving gently through a mall, interactions with botany and old technology, and worn photographs are some of the motifs he explores for the ways we shape and are shaped by our world. Men notably populate his works as Crosse holds a particular interest in expressions of masculinity, male embodiment, and queer intimacies. Wood for the Trees was partly filmed at Lebensort Vielfalt am Südkreuz, a LGBTQ+ housing project that is multi-generational and run by the Schwulenberatung in Berlin. Lyrical views of the residents and their daily activities are interspersed with shots of scientists conducting a study of an old growth forest; longstanding, undisturbed sites often with exceptional features and are bio-diverse.  The relationship between suggests a gentle analogy about care, aging, and the special sufficiency of context.

BAB 2024 acknowledges British Council Thailand for their support with the participation of this artist.