Roos Dijkhuizen Commission Day 2

Tarbert > Leverburgh > Tarbert > Hushinsh > Tarbert > Hushinsh > Tarbert > Tarbert.

When I get to experience new places, there is an instinct there for making associations between variables ; sensory or object based or within a dialogue with someone. This can create revelations, become about fate, myth or it can keep all daily activity very spherical. Cycles appear everywhere; within hydrology, the body, the solar system, work routine, seasons, timetables, the tide. It can put waiting at ease, create new perspectives and always instigate interest in passing. With the same outlook cycles can set a tone for your placement in a scenario, a place or a situation you didn't expect to end up in. There is unpredictability as well as everything being relative to one another.

This was my thinking on my second day in Harris, where certain routes were not taken because of reliance on measured time and modes of transport. Destinations were placed as a means to gain experience, but when you miss a bus it means you can be waiting, regretting or you can be looking further into what you are within at that moment. To think of all the mechanisms and all the elements continuing their cycle while you feel stuck in one place because for the second time that day you couldn't get to Hushinsh, sets a scene of chance and circumstance.

On reflection Tarbert was the main destination that day, and it gave me the opportunity to continue to connect to the people I met there, which influenced the following day with great conviction.

My morning had been spent in a physical circuit round the east and west coast of Harris, following the direction of the suns rising into two different ecosystems. I got to wind round the moonscape in clear skies and admire the bold placement of houses on its coastline. Then after a walk in hailstones to reach the pier of Leverburgh, we rolled through the softer terrain of the west; green sponges, pale sands, ambitious new housing mixed with concrete all facing that turquoise sea. Why so turquoise ?