{"id":1479,"date":"2026-06-16T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:18:00","slug":"vinca-petersen-some-were-witches-in-their-past-lives-i-was-a-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1479","title":{"rendered":"Vinca Petersen: \u201cSome Were Witches in Their Past Lives, I Was a Farmer\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/17254\/vinca-petersen-hulala-interview-isle-of-skye-crofting?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=vinca-petersen-some-were-witches-in-their-past-lives-i-was-a-farmer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/4\/474341.jpg\" alt=\"Copy of 000033600010\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSome people say they were witches in their past lives, but I\u2019m certain I was a farmer,\u201d <\/span><strong>Vinca Petersen<\/strong><span> said when I first met her back in 2023. She was preparing to open an exhibition at Edel Assanti gallery in Fitzrovia at the time and she was half-joking. A few years on, however, she has, more or less, become one. \u201cI\u2019ve always felt connected to the land.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Just shy of her 50th birthday, Petersen left behind the life she had built inhellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/17254\/vinca-petersen-hulala-interview-isle-of-skye-crofting?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=vinca-petersen-some-were-witches-in-their-past-lives-i-was-a-farmer\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14714\/vinca-peterson-hulala\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=vinca-petersen-some-were-witches-in-their-past-lives-i-was-a-farmer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-1383-922\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/4\/474325.jpg\" alt=\"000081400003 (1)\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14714\/vinca-peterson-hulala\/1?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=vinca-petersen-some-were-witches-in-their-past-lives-i-was-a-farmer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-1383-922\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/4\/474326.jpg\" alt=\"000082280016\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14714\/vinca-peterson-hulala\/2?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=vinca-petersen-some-were-witches-in-their-past-lives-i-was-a-farmer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-1383-922\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/4\/474327.jpg\" alt=\"Copy of 000000370035\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14714\/vinca-peterson-hulala\/3?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=vinca-petersen-some-were-witches-in-their-past-lives-i-was-a-farmer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-1383-922\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/4\/474328.jpg\" alt=\"Copy of 000000410010\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14714\/vinca-peterson-hulala\/4?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=vinca-petersen-some-were-witches-in-their-past-lives-i-was-a-farmer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-1383-922\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/4\/474329.jpg\" alt=\"Copy of 000000430036\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14714\/vinca-peterson-hulala\/5?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=vinca-petersen-some-were-witches-in-their-past-lives-i-was-a-farmer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-1383-922\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/4\/474330.jpg\" alt=\"Copy of 000002810021\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14714\/vinca-peterson-hulala\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=vinca-petersen-some-were-witches-in-their-past-lives-i-was-a-farmer\">View Gallery (32 images)<\/a>nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSome people say they were witches in their past lives, but I\u2019m certain I was a farmer,\u201d Vinca Petersen said when I first met her back in 2023. She was preparing to open an exhibition at Edel Assanti gallery in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}