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Paikea-Challenging-the-margins-of-time-exhibition

22 September, 2017 By Admin @AvocaWebDesign

Kia ora e hoa, Migrating once more It seems so long time since my last update. So much happened in 2016 and that’s continuing into 2017. We sold our big campervan, which then funded two tiny cottages, a 2006 Subaru Outback and left a little over. As usual we are wintering over in Ohope having escaped from Castle Hill as the big snowfall arrived. Leaving the alpine basin for the sea shore is a huge change of scene. At the last count we have a list of 35 local birds in the north, with blue herons, ducks, weka, kereru and kiwi replacing the kea and rifleman of the south. Sending wonderful Taonga offshore The big news is that Te Wairua Tapu… The Sacred Spirit exhibition… which is based on the artworks created for Song of the old Tides… has been invited to California. We have been working towards this for years and it happened this way. Back in the mid-1990s, Andy Taniwha Pona said, “I am the Keeper of the Natural Lore. Take that lore to the world to heal the people and the planet.” Out of that came Song of the Old Tides and much more. It called the Twelve Pouwhenua forth plus eight tanned hides with the ancient families of humanity depicted in cave painting form against a background of beautiful hand-dyed silks. And thus, the exhibition was born. Yet, it moved not from our shores until Kent Ferguson and Birgitte Aarestrup met to bring together a vow and a venue. At the launch of Song of the Old Tides and the Exhibition in 2004, Kent vowed to take them overseas. And that came to pass when Birgitte shared her dream of opening her home in Santa Barbara, with its purpose built art gallery, to honour the wisdom and treasures of ancient cultures. Meanwhile, unaware of this, we called for Paikea, a special whalebone carving, to be returned from California because its work there was done. Carried by Cheryl, who was on a New Zealand journey, Paikea was with us when Kent visited to announce the way had opened for the exhibition to move. Perfect timing! Paikea of the ancient Whale Trails, which crossed the wide Pacific, had arrived to open the way for the sacred lore to move beyond our shores. Paikea was the ancestral chief of the Whale People. Several years ago, a gale in the Chatham Islands exposed a five-metre length of whale bone that radiocarbon dating estimated was 3,495 years old. Carved from this the Paikea amulet was a gift from Keremia Armstrong, a taonga to move with our work.

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