Islands are great cultivators of the imagination. For outsiders, islands can evocate ideas of refuge, a place of escape from the demands of the mainland. Whilst the inhabitants understand the shoreline boundary as a limit, but also a shield from external threat. This project explores the relationship between ecology, habitation, and land use in lutruwita (Tasmania). Made on a short trip by bicycle around a northern portion of the island, the photographs are a record of vernacular architecture set against the manifold landscapes of one of the world's most bio-diverse regions, where tensions between preservation and development are ever present.
