Tīpuna

Original painting SOLD, oil on canvas, 920 x 610mm, 2007

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- Regular museum archival paper print - 770 x 511mm

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"Tipuna" meaning "ancestor" in some Māori dialects, closely follows the theme of Sofia's exhibition entitled "Te Here Tāngata - The Rope of Mankind". As a of genealogy, the phrase symbolically alludes to a long rope or vine, which stretches into the past for generations until the instant of creation and on into the future. In our contemporary world of instant gratification and swift development, Te Here Tāngata is a humbling concept.

Sofia visualizes in this work, her own connection to her Swedish, Māori (Ng...