Natalie

Currently, at the Gus Fisher Gallery

in Shortland Street, Auckland

I have an exhibition of portraits, 

a selection from the last 30 years.

Here is a portrait that my

father made, this one of my sister

Natalie when she was about 15 yrs old.

Buddha, Kaukapakapa

This black and white photo

I took in 1998.

The golden statue sits on a hill 

above a Tibetan Buddhist

community in Kaukapakapa,

about 30 minutes north of central Auckland.

About 2 weeks ago I visited the

statue again and this colour photo

is the result.

Red 

Recently I have been buying

red notebooks. Don't know why 

exactly except that I like the 

look of them and there is something about them

that appeals to me. I might make a few squiggles 

on one or two pages but generally I don't write in them.

Buddha's Hand

Suites

I am playing around with some recent photos, laying them out on an unironed
sheet, and seeing if in some way they get along. I want them to speak to each
other.

Patu Muka


Last weekend, Puke Ariki,
the museum here in New Plymouth,
brought some maori
stone tools out from storage so that
visitors could pick them up,
and generally come to appreciate them more.


Many of them were Patu muka,
from patu which is a word
for clubs of various sorts and
muka which is the word for
flax fibre.


These implements were used 
to pound the flax leaves as a way
of extracting the fibre which was
an invaluable resource, used in many ways.

Personally I found it a rich experience,
so much so in fact that I went twice.

Passionfruit

I took this photo almost two years

ago and have only just

resurrected it.

Yesterday I put it on 

my Facebook page

without any attached comment.

I was surprised at the level of response 

 and it's made me

look at it again.

An interesting point about

passionfruit, this South American plant,

 is that the name comes

from the flower whose parts 

were thought by missionaries to represent the

instruments of torture used in

the Passion of Christ eg the crown

of thorns, and the whips.