Is it possible to completely erase our ancestral knowledges? If we were to stop and listen are we able to reconnect to what has been lost? I am a woman of Scottish and Cornish colonising, and Dutch post World War II settler ancestry living and working on Kaurna and Peramangk country. As an emerging installation artist, I am interested in accessing pre-Christian wisdoms through ancestral and folkloric archival research, embodiment (which means thinking, walking, reading, talking, and being aware of and documenting my emotional and visceral bodily responses), and conversing and making with community on place process to uncover what has been silenced. I am accessing lost ancestral knowledges and translating them into video, sound, sculpture, performance and socially engaged art. In doing so, I hope to begin to dissolve the binaries, enforced on peoples through centuries of violence, which placed cis white men above all other people and nature. Throughout this work I am questioning, negotiating, and wondering how the dispossessed become the dispossessor, and how can we interrupt this cycle? Hag-ia Cailleach is social sculpture. She invokes the Celtic ancestral creator Goddess; sovereign deity who formed the land, and has power over the weather. This Goddess emerged during my creative process and showed me that her people came from exactly the location my Cameron ancestors once lived. They were the Caledonians. Who has erased this figure and why? Why does she only emerge when we dig deep and look? As the Goddess of Winter the Divine Hag has power over the water and the wind as well as the land. Her presence in this place connects my ancestral past with my ancestral present and future, and acknowledges the connection we all once had to Earth and her entities. Hag-ia Cailleach is participatory socially engaged art The art is the meeting place You might meet others You might meet yourself You might feel something - feelings are okay You might hear something unexpected or see something more deeply You might experience nature in a different way White yarn, donated by community, is woven across space and time creating a web which converses with the trees and the sugar syrup adorned lace veil in its centre. The veil, representing the Cailleach in her Veiled form (the veil was a post Christian addition) infers ways in which women’s knowledges have been erased (entrapped) within their tools of domestication (the white yarn). Echoes of voices and natural sounds envelop your senses offering fragments of thoughts, memories, and song. The artwork keeps reforming and rebuilding as the Hag-ia Cailleach engages with us and the elements. We can be in absolute symbiosis with place and each other as the veils between time and place and hierarchies have permission to collapse.