Anunder

Anunder explores the beauty of water, whether river, loch, burn or sea, while simultaneously attempting to interrogate what lies hidden beneath the surface of large scale industrial developments instigated by the energy industries. In Shetland the landscape lies in a constant state of injury following the construction of the Viking Energy Wind Farm, a massive industrial scale development of 103 wind turbines. It has contaminated waters and polluted the land. Life has been lost. Fish have disappeared. Invisible storms of microplastics shower land and sea. Noise, infrasound and flicker unremittingly erode wellbeing. Shetland is not alone. Other small communities in the northern and Arctic region are similarly sabotaged by the energy industries. Accounts of villages drowned by the Porttipahta Reservoir created through hydropower expansion in Lapland resonate deeply with my fears for the imminent disappearance of communities in Shetland. Horror lingers beneath the surface. Suffocation. Disempowerment. Displacement. Loss.