150 x 285mm, 100 pages, Risograph printing, Coil bound, Screen printed card covers, 2025

This publication began development in 2021 as part of Gaada’s Safeland programme Micro-commissions. Sally Huband was invited to respond to a unfinished project within Shetland By Numbers, the epic lifework of Scalloway botanist Walter Scott.

Huband’s surfacing publication, Salt-Water Island, explores the joy that can be present in needing the help of others to access places, and how this help or care can bring mutual joy. It looks at how chronic illness can sometimes mean the heightened islandness or isolation of a bodymind.

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