Widyan Abu Sa'ada
In the Wind
The farmers in the Golan have been facing a difficult challenge in the last decade: wind energy production companies that plan to build wind turbine farms on their lands.
These turbines might cause severe damage to agriculture and wildlife in the Golan, as research has shown, in addition to harming human health.
In the Wind is a protest art project that supports the farmers' resistance to the project, which also affects my own family. My grandmother owns a piece of land that was the sole breadwinner in raising her five orphaned children after my grandfather's early death. My grandfather on my mother's side is an old farmer. He owns a piece of land that wind-generating companies will take over when he does not have a source of income.
On this basis, the four portraits came as a visual document that confirms the suffering of the farmers connected to their land at the moment when these giant companies are trying to separate them from us.
The central work in my project documents a panoramic view of agricultural land in the Golan moments before it was burned.
The work, a video Art, forms a whirl that will swallow our entire existence as a green environment and an indigenous agricultural community.