Swapping mundane daily life with a romantic notion of temporary utopia is arguably a common underlying ideal for any tourist. In an image-saturated reality true experiences can be swapped for incomplete and idealised representations snapped and shared. Does having access to such imagerey enhance or hinder the experience of the visitor? 

Doing Fieldwork in the outer Hebrides felt much like being a tourist due to the brief duration of the visit. Creating an artwork based on the fieldwork made me feel hovering between a tourist and interloper. In this collaboration with Rosalie Monod de Froideville, a selection of ‘typical Hebridean images’ found through a google search, were commissioned to be painted and mailed over by a company in China. E mail correspondence and goolge images with their URLs are composed in a publication and exhibited with the paintings at An Lanntair, Stornoway.