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aroha Awaroa Aotearoa
Nelson, Aotearoa-New Zealand
1000 x 900
Painting and dyeing on silk, laminating,
shirring, hand and machine stitching;
silk Habotai, card, recycled cardboard, laminated papers,
sea
shells, acrylic paints, fiber-reactive dyes
In early 1989 I left New Zealand for Hong Kong, and after a short time
there I traveled on to Europe. England would be home base for the
next eleven years. However there were many visits to Aotearoa to
visit my parents and family. Only one was long enough for work to be
contemplated.
The long greyness of the English winter had deepened my appreciation
of one of my favorite places in New Zealand – Awaroa Inlet on
Golden Bay. When I returned to the area to spend some months in
Nelson, a profusion of joyful memories of sun-drenched childhood
holidays spent beachcombing in my shirred 'cozzie' all came together
in this piece. |