Whakapapa Origins

Original painting SOLD, oil on wooden board, 720 x 720mm, 2013

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Print sizes and editions (limited to 275)

- Regular museum archival paper print - 615 x 719mm

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The story of

A cosmic scene from the Māori creation myth takes place between sky father Ranginui in the form of stars, earth mother Papatūānuku in the form of Ngāti Porou's sacred Mt Hikurangi, and their divine son Tāne Mahuta - the nude figure who lies between them in Te Pō, the darkness, with top knot flowing umbilical-like in strands of snow to the peaks of his mother mountain.

"" speaks of us being living expressions of an Ever-Present Origin, as the philosopher Jean Gebser wrote. Gods, goddesses, ancestors, earth,...