Threads to our Ancestors

Original painting SOLD , acrylic and flashe on canvas, 300 x 300mm, 2013

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Print sizes and editions (limited to 275)

- Regular museum archival paper print - 550 x 550mm

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This work is an adaptation of C.F. Goldie's 1902 portrait of Ina Te Papatahi. Sofia's idea behind the radial lines is that they are threads reaching into the past to our ancestors from countless generations until the instant of creation and far into the future. They symbolize the traditional Māori notion of 'The Rope of Mankind' or 'Te Here Tangata'. In Minson's opinion C.F. Goldie's recordings of Māori through portraiture in the 19th and 20th century has helped strengthened our generation'...