LANDSCAPE
IN PAIN
Roxane Permar

I go through phases when I'm obsessed with facts about the Viking Energy Wind Farm in Shetland. Perhaps this compulsion to collect...

I've been slow in gathering my thoughts and time for posts on this Blog as it's been an intensive year. So, before 2023 ends I want to...

I attended this wonderful workshop at the Shetland Library on 10 December 2022. It was organised by Cato Draaisma who is a postgraduate...

In July there was a new peat landslide on the Viking Energy Wind Farm construction site along a section of cable trench at the Mid Kame...

I take the title of this Blog entry from James Marriott's Blog, 'Cambo and Viking Energy: The Common Wealth of Wind in Shetland', which...

Recently I participated in the annual Relate North 2021 Symposium, Everyday Extremes, hosted by Tomsk State University. I love these...

There is so much interesting material in this piece, The Shetland Islands: Renewables and Corporate Interests, published by the Renewable...

I'm looking forward to this annual event which will be the ninth symposium in the annual series of symposia and research exhibitions...

I like Mark Hodgson's writing very much. In this piece he looks at the subsea cable that is necessary for the Viking Energy Wind Farm to...

I've been reading about solastalgia because it seems to identify the pain that many in Shetland feel in response to the Viking Energy...

I was in dialogue with Dorothea Rust for the exhibition Hidden Flowers Bloom Beautifully which has enriched, guided and inspired...

I am so pleased to have been able to visit the Shetland version of the exhibition. We didn't have a private view, unlike in Switzerland...

I am reminded of the series of images that I think Mike Finnie prepared a fairly long time ago that show the relative height of the wind...

Hidden Flowers Bloom Most Beautifully is open in Shetland and Switzerland. In each exhibition I have a film, selection of digital prints...

The online exhibition is now live! You can see it here. The exhibition is part of a research project at the University of Glasgow. On...

I am not sure if this is the place where I should share interesting articles about Wind Farms. I am planning to create a Resources page...

I'm delighted and relieved to find out today that my contribution to the Special Edition publication for Hidden Flowers Bloom Beautiful...

I want to credit the artists and organisers of the exhibition Hidden flowers bloom beautiful because we are getting nearer to the final...

Yesterday I posted a box of cards made of this image to Switzerland for the Special Edition of work by artists in the exhibition Hidden...

The Invitation to take part in Landscapes of Mutability marks the starting point for #LandscapeInPain. It's only early stages of the...