The relationship between people and places, particularly dilapidated/abandoned places, is powerful for what the inhabitants may learn about themselves and how they manage to influence a place’s functionality. When does a place become a non-place? In 2013 - 14, I explored the reaction to Sighthill’s demolition and the transformation of Pollphail in Portavadie, Loch Fyne – two opposing reactions to buildings commissioned for demolition.  
  Despite the critical condition of Sighthill, its previous residents still hold it in high esteem and consider their experiences living there as the greatest for community vitality, whereas Pollphail was initially designed as accommodation for oil workers, but a change in demands prevented any genuine development and left a shell of an idea in its wake.  In the meantime, people have been slipping in and out of the ghost town and spray painting the remnants that have been left behind, shaping a cold and abandoned construction into their own personal canvas to reimagine a new sense of life upon it. 
 Through my own experience visiting Pollphail in Portavadie and collecting information on experiences from the previous residents of Sighthill, I explored the abstraction that place has once the intimate codifiers and household items are removed or altered, and the emotional tug that comes with saying goodbye to a place you have identified as home for an extended period of time.