Like a sentinel of time, this Scar Tree on Dungibara Country, stands as a living pathway between the Masters family's heritage and their Indigenous culture. Through seasons of historic change, this majestic Eucalyptus Tereticornis,  rooted in the rich soils of Cressbrook Creek, serves as both witness and keeper of stories etched in its very form.

Stepping behind the veil of elemental complexity reveals a collision of deep time and modernity. Light that has travelled as long as this tree has grown now illuminates its form, bridging ancient Indigenous wisdom with the present day. Like the Masters family's cultural union, it demonstrates how the elements weave together mankind's unbreakable bonds to the land.

The constructed landscape emerges through film photographs developed in a solution created from the tree's own leaves, each image revealing new layers of meaning and memory. Just as Indigenous art reflects the rhythmic patterns found in nature, these merged images build into a terrain that weaves the family narrative with stories of the Dungibara people, revealing the sacred geometry of nature reflected in all things. The rear image captured over several hours shows the tree's magisty beneath southern stars, honouring ancient wisdom that everything is written twice: once on the the earth and once in the sky above. 

Plagued by my own unyielding lure to ancestral land, I set about finding a clearer understanding. After spending months on Dungibara Country and forming my own relationship with the tree (and its lively inhabitants), my understanding was refined. The more I stripped away the weight of modern convenience and unbiasedly absorbed nature's offerings, I saw the complex reciprocity that waltzes through the spirit of this land, linking us, like the capillary action of the eucalyptus, to our own place in time.