Power Lines
![Powerlines Powerlines](http://www.marybourne.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MB_PowerLines_Screen-Shot-2018-02-06-at-20.07.13.jpg)
![Powerlines Powerlines](http://www.marybourne.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MB_PowerLines_DSC03799.jpg)
In 2018, the grid connection for the Dorenell Wind Farm was installed, running through our small community. As a way of coming to terms with these changes I started photographing and drawing the new structures, in the process aiming to retell their story to myself.
![Powerlines Powerlines](http://www.marybourne.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MB_PowerLines_DSC05906.jpg)
![Powerlines Powerlines](http://www.marybourne.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MB_PowerLines_IMG_1191-2.jpg)
Pylons I & II ink on paper
![Powerlines Powerlines](http://www.marybourne.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MB_PowerLines_DSC06021.jpg)
![Powerlines Powerlines](http://www.marybourne.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MB_PowerLines_9-copy.jpg)
![Powerlines Powerlines](http://www.marybourne.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MB_PowerLines_8-copy.jpg)
When, during the first lockdown, I was asked by ArtUK to produce a home school activity, I devised a cut paper project based on “the view from your window”. The work I made took on a fairy-tale quality, an update on the idea of “the house in the woods”, and I began to see the new infrastructure as just one more element in the story of the landscape.
ArtUK Home School: Masterpieces at Home