In 2023, Paola reflected on the project, “I was doing community arts work at the Gathering Space, a former Aboriginal community centre based at the Maribyrnong Library at Highpoint Shopping Centre, where I was running projects with Aboriginal communities living and working in the western suburbs. I was put into contact with the Centreway Traders Group and Council to work with young migrant kids and share my Aboriginal sense of belonging to Country with them. I helped them identify local Indigenous plants and to get to know the Traditional Owners of the place they call home. I wanted to teach them to care for Country, while bringing their own sense of identity, belonging and purpose to this place.”