This landscape-based line of research branches out from a geopolitical term, Rimlands, originally coined by UK politician Halford John Mackinder (1861-1947) in pre WWII strategising. Geopolitically, Rimlands surround Heartlands (cores of political and economic power). Rimlands are, by extension, tradable, invadable, expendable to the Heartlands. These terms collapse power, land and history to a simple hierarchy of position.
This research centres around the Northern Scottish coastline, relatively remote, yet continuously inhabited since Neolithic times, when these shores held the centres of human occupation, harvest and trade. These terms: harvest, territorialisation, building, are reconsidered here through landscape based actions.