Returning to Homelands--->Contemplating Displacement

Returning to homelands---> a decolonizing imperative. This is what I've been more literally approaching recently in my studio. I have been thinking of homelands as the places, spaces, spirit of food sustenance, ceremonial grounds, lost or disconnected attachment to a specific part of earth. I was born in my ancestral homelands, I've traveled back there and visited, but never spent meaningful durations in those sacred spaces. I am painting my ancestral homelands and through art making I transport myself to those places, returning. The part that is interesting and confusing is that through contemplating this return, I realize the displacement that exists and this contemplation of displacement makes sense through abstraction. Is returning to homelands a mental exercise, a spiritual journey, a physical act of travel, an experience possibly had through the act of painting a memory of place? I know that I return to the home of my ancestors through many paths, singing, painting, telling stories, remembering, smelling the earth. This is important to my artistic exploration, life journey, and mainly in relearning how to be a human being.