Through a dark landscape of black earth and ash the fragile road makes its way over rather than through the landscape, and has a tenuous hold up on it. Bleak foreboding landscape can soon change to a bright and uplifting light drenched panorama, whilst always retaining a fragile and stunning beauty.

The series of images express my experience of passing over this landscape in swiftly changing weather conditions, dark threatening sky changing to bright horizontal sunlight, and in winds which can lift small rocks to hurl across ones path. The tenuous hold man has on this often remote and sparsely populated landscape is emphasised by the difficulties of communication and access, with roads disappearing towards the horizon across the vast black plains of old or recent lava flows, abandoned buildings and remote working farms.