Reconciliation Mosaic Workshop - Community
The community workshop focused on what it takes to build a Barossa Bushgardens story together and tried to provide an understanding how people can create their personal connection to nature. Trust could be interpreted as a seedling growing, or a mother with her child or reflection could be connected to nature as a reflection in water. There were no wrong answers. How we can build our own story? See what the participants said...
Reconciliation Stories
Chris
Chris
Chris
Native bees are an amazing part of our ecosystem and under so much stress from destruction of the environment and who could not possibly love a blue-banded bee! We need to protect our country at all costs.
Mel
Chris
Chris
This is the ripples in a waterhole. The waters on Ngadjuri country are healing. Water is life!
Pat
Chris
Pat
Pond with dragonfly and children watching and learning.
Randal
Randal
Randal
Connection to the land through trees and birds. Golden wattle blossom representing new life. Lorikeet prints representing freedom. Also reflects my happy place in my front yard.
Reta
Randal
Randal
One tree carrying the scars of fire, the other bending with the wind. Above the earth, close enough to remember each other. A place of healing where blame no longer mattered.
Lynette
Randal
Lynette
Nature and the landscape are a powerful force that provides a sense of connection and peace. The foreground of dry grass and earth leads into the hills which wrap their arms around us, gathering everyone close. Upwards the sky reaches. Everyone has a right to belong.
Debbie
Heather
Heather
Connection to the land and nature. Personal growth, walking towards a brighter future in the direction that I am guided to where I belong. At peace in nature, amongst the land, gumtrees, rivers, rocks and mountains.
Heather
Heather
Heather
Knobby Club Rush – Near the swampy overflow after surging floods, promising renewal and giving life.
Vanessa
Heather
Vanessa
Image of the sun and landscape with a river. Being on country.
Rosalie
Rosalie
Rosalie
I love flowering gum trees and the changes from the bud to the flower, then to the nut.
Penny
Rosalie
Rosalie
Connection, flow, water hole, reeds, old gum, life.
Inneke
Rosalie
Inneke
This piece began as a tribute to the ocean. A place that is a bridge to all the worlds. I feel connected and as a first-generation Australia, reconciliation of culture is something I have had to find within myself. Water is where I meet all of them. The shape became a heart organically, which seems fitting to me. Reconciliation with past and present friends to me begins with the heart.
Doreen
Doreen
Doreen
I thought about how everything, from the smallest microbe in the soil, where the deep roots of the tallest trees have their foundation, to the sky is connected. Every creature and every plant has its place and if we loose those connections we loose everything. Reconciliation is not just about people but also about reconciliation with country.
Bella
Doreen
Doreen
Rakali is the Australian native water rat. I think about my time spent by the river in Walker Flat, fishing with my partner. I am reminded by the responsibility we have to respect country when we go on our trips and the specific care for the water rats’ home and he mutual trust as we share the space.
Terri and Greg
Terri and Greg
Terri and Greg
A refresh of life with its innocent growth. Unblemished by life. A small joy to relate to its message.
Mignon
Terri and Greg
Terri and Greg
I'm a regular early morning walker and my track takes me into the Bushgardens and out past the Labyrinth. Walking the Labyrinth slows my normal pace, quietens my mind creating a calmness. As of late I have been grieving so in my solitude my tears flow freely, but with the sun rising, the magpies and kookaburras calling, I find some peace there.