Create Your First Project
Start adding your projects to your portfolio. Click on "Manage Projects" to get started
Woodside Garden
Project type
Photography
Date
May 2025
Location
Woodside, St Mary, Jamaica
Camera
Canon EOS R10
A brief history of the site can be found here: http://www.jnht.com/site_woodside.php
A Taino sacred site and place of healing in pre-colonial times, this land was occupied in the 1800s by British colonizers, the Neilsons, who turned it into the largest coffee plantation in the area while enslaving many Africans and forcing them to adopt colonial (Anglican) religious practices. In recent years, this land has been rematriated back to the Yamaye Guani Taino people and their ancestral rites/ceremonies are practiced at this site again.
In these images, you can see the evidence of Atabey (Taino name for Mother Nature) reclaiming her space. Medicinal plants have returned to purify the space, transmute the energy, and restore balance.
No matter what false monuments man’s ego can create, they are not exempt to her laws of death and renewal. All things must go back to her.














.png)
