In 2009, the Cape Farewell project took artists, musicians, architects, writers into the high arctic to stimulate a creative engagement and debate about climate change and human/arctic transformation.

The complexity of the subject and emotional response manifest itself in highly individual and salient stories. Each portrait is accompanied by such stories, adding to how we think people would  react and offering insite on the particular scale of the human response.

Buckland has used portraits with text in his 1999 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, ‘Performances’. The lineage of the works are found in August  Sanders portraits of the 1030’s where Sander identified the person with the modernist labeling of profession, occupation, inclination. The stories imbedded in these artists texts are portraits in themselves, insights into the workings of the focused mind.