The machair and blacklands of Uist are covered with the remain of stone-build blackhouse; the moorlands with remains of sheiling huts.

Thin strips of croftland often show the remains of generations of a family’s homes, a marking human time.

The hand-crafted walls stand to head height: the open stone frames of fireplaces, windows and doorways, capped by lintels. Built upwards and outwards around the large, irregular foundation stones.

The walls both punctuate and focus the landscape, setting vertical limits to the horizontal fields. They are a liminal presences: signs of both occupation and absence; permanence and change. They stand for both abandonment and renewal, home and exile, age and decay.