Dumbo Feather

Gregory Smith is Out of the Forest

Gregory Smith spent much of his adult life homeless. After an abusive childhood, and an early adulthood marked by addiction and social problems, he found himself living in the forests of northern New South Wales for nearly a decade. There, he faced his demons, or what he calls “the aliens,” and between hunting and trading food for his own survival, spent long hours processing his experiences in solitude. It was a period that sent him on a journey to save himself, and today, more than 20 years later,

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