The living tree
Walk the line
A clock for time. Gold sap for the people we can name. Photographs hang in the leaves. Living dates stay off. The two Sydneys stay two people — the gap between the trunks is the case, not a join.
Mood, not evidence. London in the roots. New Zealand in the leaves. Labels on the clock art are invented. The four coats are a real photograph, colourised. Click a frame.
The spine
Gold thread from John of Wapping to Simon. The crimson bead is the open join — not a person.
English trunk · Wapping
John of the soap works
6 children of John on this walk
Soap-works mood. Not a portrait of John. 
Port mood. Staging, not a passenger photograph.
NZ household · Gore 1922
The drover’s house
9 children of the Gore couple on this walk
Southland mood. Not a portrait of the drover. 
Colourised: Cuth and mates, Dunedin. The photograph that started this house.