Nano Incursion
The bay at The Point Of The Pund, Scalloway
As I was hiking around the coast near Scalloway, I walked round the small bay by the Point of the Pund. There was a salmon farm there, and at first glance the area is magnificent in its drama and natural beauty. One had to wonder what this tiny little insignificant cove’s narrative was. I imagined a rich history of sea hardened folk fishing out at sea, grazing animals on the land, and following their spirituality in what I assumed to be a stone circle, (but may have been a round hut). Their lives must have been so natural, no gadgets to help/interfere in their lives, no Co-Op to pop to for a tin of Heinz Beans and some sliced bread, they grew/raised/fished what they ate, to survive day to day. So all this was passing through my mind (see my post Landscape), as I headed down to the shore, to be greeted by modern man’s detritus spread out along the rocky beach. Rubbish of all types, ropes, plastic containers, a shore here, a glove there. I felt embarrassed to be a member of modern humanity to tell you the truth. So I documented it, and have decided to write to Scalloway’s ancestors :
Dear Ancient residents of the Point of Pund, Scalloway area
I am can only but apologise for how we are fucking up this planet royally.
Yours Sincerely
Gorm
on behalf of modern human race.
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