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This is a set of 4 digital prints constructed from found images on the iternet and the words of people found in local letters to the editors of British newspapers, to construct a visual representation of the supressed cultural/environmental dilemma that wind farms are generating.

Monumental or monster sized wind turbines have begun to litter many large and environmentally scenic areas of the world. It is doubtful these machines in the sky will replace polluting fossil fuels, they have created an ethical problem within the broad environmental community. The environmental community has divided into two groups, those who are fighting toxics (air pollution and chemicals) and conservationists who are trying to preserve the environment in its natural state, primarily for habitat and the preservation of species threatened by habitat loss.

What is missing is the debate over where is an appropriate place, given the historical and visual importance of many views that will be transformed into industrial landscapes, and how to place these giant wind farms so that they maximize their energy development while at the same time not obliterating hundreds of years of conservation work in windswept areas of a country.

The groups of environmentalists fighting toxics are adamant that wind farms should be everywhere possible to save the world from polluting generators. They argue a person cannot be 'green' if they object to wind power. This sort of environmental fascism is turning a blind eye to the conservationist view. As early as the 1960's Buckmister Fuller had pointed out that wind farms are most efficient when thay can harvest wind power and tidal power from the same installation. Unfortunately littering the landscape wherever possible with giant horizontal axis wind turbines may not be the answer.