{"id":75,"date":"2022-10-22T21:21:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T10:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petewalsh.net\/home\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2023-06-12T10:48:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:48:14","slug":"ancestral-dreams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.petewalsh.net\/home\/works\/ancestral-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size has-system-font-font-family\">Ancestral Dreams<\/h4>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:28px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-74.fg-masonry { --fg-gutter: 20px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-masonry foogallery-lightbox-foobox fg-center fg-masonry fg-ready fg-light fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-captions-bottom fg-hover-fade fg-transparent-overlays fg-c-c fg-col3\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-74\" 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After a while, plants and trees begin to take on their own identity, a more sentient presence. The trees often emit an eccentric persona, previously concealed, perhaps the making of imagination or subconscious memory, but uncannily and immediately present. It\u2019s hard to ignore. They are curious, commanding, familial. Sometimes foreboding, always communal. I\u2019ve been left with a deeper understanding and recognition for the Indigenous reality of family in nature, kinship in country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">Each tree has a story, told a thousand ways through its branches, its leaves, its trunk that becomes stronger with age, more wrinkled over time, until it begins a journey of inevitable decay. Sheltered by its children, leaving behind the gift of a no longer recognisable body, sustaining the next generation through bold inheritance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">Old. Young. Living. Dead. Guarding. Holding. Tending. 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