As part of my residency with the kids at Kilmuir Primary School through Atlas Arts we did a lot of drawing together. One of the things we created involved everyone drawing a picture of their croft and then placing it on a giant piece of paper in relation to where they lived from the school. They then filled in the details in between and around each other’s crofts, including the mountains and the sea. In Gaelic each mountain has a particular name, this is especially interesting as it means that if you speak Gaelic then you inherently have a deeper understanding of the land and a way to describe the landscape. Some of the other details the kids decided to fill in were the fairies who live in Fairy Glen, the various types of cows (i.e Highland vs Dairy), the streams between houses and of course some of the many grazing sheep on Skye. Last visit to Kilmuir I also left them with disposable cameras and the instructions to take photographs of crofting or food production/ foraging they wanted to document which is what we had been speaking about and drawing during my visit. The photos were perceptive and well thought out- one kid had taken a picture of an old man who I assumed was perhaps a grandparent but it was actually a man who had been crofting for 70 years, another was a picture of the family dog who also helps chase out the animals when they go hunting. These images were included in the map as to where they were photographed. Once we were done they has created a large map of the area, as a way to reveal how they perceive space and the local landscape.