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Islands are solid thresholds made out of stone and cliff s; their outlines only exist in presence of their negative, in presence of liquid matter.
Geographical position and topographical characterisation,
hence make of these limbs of land exceptional case studies.
What symbolical, physical and metaphorical implications
does the intangible line dividing land and water embody?
Isolation becomes a human condition that is strongly
intertwined with fi nitude, with borders (material or psychological), with the ambiguous and ever changing lines
marking the unknown.
The following is an exploration into the contradictory
meanings that thresholds can acquire; it is an investigationon the collision of history, nature and geography.
It is the story of Hirta and its abandon, of Lampedusa and
the longing for freedom, of Surtsey and its disappearance.

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