To a Maori Artist there is no distinction between art and craft. Together they blend within a parallel universe of living mahi creating eternal sacred thread.
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Creative works themselves become a spiritual conversation with the earth connecting through us as we work. The physical spirit of our creation identifies the meaning behind the object of our Mahi.
Energy lines of earth and matter pass through indigenous knowledge to spark spiritual memories of influence to the Artist, as a vessel for storytelling.
Spirit Conception Creation
... birth from life
Te Aho Tapu the sacred thread to Matariki, doorway of Poutama and we the steps to its laddered patterns of navigation. A spirit journey of faith navigating life by the stars.
Tangatawhenua thread their blood into the land with every birth. Maori descend of a Big Tree of life with generations of branches steeming from a root planted within the past. Life and land filled by Maori placenta given in care to the shielding spirit of papakainga trees.
The act of creating a process of Ka to many indignenous thought.The life-giving force drawn from an eternal universe. We evolved in the stars, descended from their creative weaving patterns, streamed timelessly in light threads of blood across time and lands.
For the artist, Past, present and future, are spirals of life weaving stories, within stories, all contained in an individual work of inner spirit.
