{"id":1815,"date":"2023-05-12T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/thelionsgate\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:21:24","slug":"in-photos-before-and-after-the-lions-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/thelionsgate\/in-photos-before-and-after-the-lions-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"In photos: before and after The Lions&#8217; Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, apologies for the space between posts, 6 months this time &#8211; a new record, but hey there&#8217;s a whole world outside of the digital, and getting the balance right is important. Indeed, that&#8217;s a part of what The Lions&#8217; Gate is about. Plugging into seasonal time. I&#8217;m old enough to remember stories of &#8216;burn-out&#8217; in Silicon Valley, when Systems folks packed it all in and opened delicatessens or ran to the hills to homestead. Yes please, but try affording it now! These days the digital follows us everywhere, delighting and frustrating in equal measure &#8211; so, all the more reason to connect with things non-human, things other than our obsessive complexities, and perhaps, therein, open a space to realize &#8211; there really is only one eco-system &#8211; Mother Earth, and how she needs our help.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1855\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1855\" style=\"width: 974px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1855\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/thelionsgate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2023\/05\/one-metre-square-polyculture.jpg?resize=580%2C437&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One metre square polyculture\" width=\"580\" height=\"437\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One metre square polyculture &#8211; at the Kitchen Allotment<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>With The Lions&#8217; Gate&#8217;s existence always hanging by a spiders thread, I thought it may help to provide a before and after photo diary, detailing the interventions made to a largely grey, angular, and biologically (bar humans), dead campus &#8211; an attempt to provide some medicine for a ravaged planet.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>As Gorillaz, on my Spotify playlist sang this morning &#8211; &#8216;individual actions change the world&#8217;. 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