An exploration which started out as a critical view of the romanticised and nostalgic paintings of life in rural Scotland became an examination of the formal qualities of the corrugated iron which features in so many of the dilapidated crofts depicted in that genre. My process led to an enquiry into contour, colour, scale and different surfaces: abstracting materials and isolating them from the highland landscape which is, in itself, both monumental and elemental. The sinusoidal curves of the corrugations prompted an exploration of notional wave-forms using an oscilloscope. A sine wave produced by an audio input was altered, layered and folded to produce virtual corrugations both visually and in soundscape.
