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In collaboration with Te Warihi Hetaraka. A comment on colonisation...
...the waka positioned as if being launched, the bow in the water at high tide. From the Hatea Stream the stone waves invading the shore, partially submerging the waka and finally, like a tsunami wave, dispersing over the land.
Te Warihi Hetaraka is a tohunga, a specialist in the traditional Maori arts, wood carving in particular. He is also knowledgeable in all aspects of things Maori. We have been friends since the early seventies and, as I had with Diggeress Te Kanawa, I was awaiting an opportunity for us to work together. Through Te Warihi, the project was subject to as much Maori consultation and assessment as it was from Pakeha. |
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