Isla says: 

When I opened up that Super 8 Cine camera, I just felt cosy, and it took me straight back in time to when I was growing up. There was a local cinema that was in an old, converted music hall. I loved going there as a child. It was my escape from what was going on at home. Home wasn't always a happy place and could be quite disruptive at times. I really wanted to recreate that feeling of warmth and security; the feel of the material on the seat, the smell of the popcorn, the ticket in your hand. In miniature, it's all about retaining the vital parts of something.  I have to decide what is really really important to make a place feel right, even if that means certain details fall off or I have play with different scales. That's the challenge of miniature that makes it so appealing. I want to create that charm that comes from the rose-tinted nostalgia of looking-backwards. I know there is a kind of a wistfulness about it all – saving old things and making them better but I see no appeal in modern things. For me, it’s all about repairing old, damaged, unused things into something more beautiful – making a crappy situation much more romantic, because I’ve had that in my life. I suppose the places I make are quite escapist in that sense.