Six months motorbike travel around South America and subsequent visits to Mexico opened my eyes and heart to a way of living connecting us on a twenty-four-hour basis to the beauty of nature’s seasons, sounds, patterns, rich hues and moods. We parked our bikes inside many and varied inner courtyard homes, hotels, pensions and shacks. The sky, the ever present ceiling of our beautiful planet. Living inside out or outside in. The vivacious, often clashing colours of South American textiles strongly influenced my recreation of spaces, complimenting this style of living and to which I eventually realized a dream of constructing my own inner courtyard home on the shores of the Indian Ocean.