Dominant history has always been the British gaze mapped onto the African landscape. Radical politics is looked for elsewhere, rather than through the national politics here. This project will be a reverse of that construction, imagining the African gaze mapped onto the British landscape, providing a ‘radical' way of thinking about a national question: who should own the land of the Scottish Highlands?

Scotland has the most unequal landownership in the Western world. Since the Highland Clearances, the ownership of the Highland has stagnated for both the landscape and communities. Today, the four commissions of the Highland, the deer, land, sheep and forestry commission have held contentious discussions about ways to unsettle these ossifying boundaries, physically and culturally.

The project’s ambition is to challenge existing landownership boundaries by constructing a radical vessel that roams across the Highlands under the ‘right to roam’ act, rehabilitating the land and cultivating conversations in a way that requires cultural diversity and community appreciation.

As Frantz Fanon concludes in Black Skins, White Masks (1952): “…the black man is not. No more than the white man. Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?”