Monday, 26 October 2015
Arrival at Matauri Bay
A video showing the view from the road as its winds down to the beach and campground at Matauri Bay - resting place of the "Rainbow Warrior".
Friday, 16 October 2015
beachcombing
After leaving Browns Bay I stopped at Orewa for a cup of tea beside the beach.
A brief stroll yielded several finds for recycled artworks: a pair of broken jandals and a handfull of soy-sauce fish from the sushi shop:
A brief stroll yielded several finds for recycled artworks: a pair of broken jandals and a handfull of soy-sauce fish from the sushi shop:
a glimpse of the road
After a night at the waterside campground at Pahi I headed north to Keri Keri along the backroads. This clip shows quiet winding gravel roads along the way..
Thursday, 15 October 2015
keri keri men's shed
I have spent that last three mornings with the crew at the Keri Keri Shed, helping them build their new storage shed......a slideshow of the activities and characters will follow shortly (I am limited by power and internet access while on the road).....
Friday, 9 October 2015
some local history - muskets and genocide
Our starting place for this roadtrip is my home in Browns Bay on the North Shore in Auckland. A temperate, fertile area bordering a protected harbour replete with sealife - but devoid of native Maori inhabitants when Auckland was chosen as the capital of NZ by Governor Hobson in 1840. The reasons for the lack of local Maori presence are chilling.
In “The North Shore - an illustrated history” David Verran’s version of events is brief: the local warring “tribes linked together to unsuccessfully combat Ngapuhi in the early 1820’s...[the] survivors then abandoned the district and the victorious Ngapuhi returned to the north, leaving the area abandoned.”
This terse, sanitized description is typical of the modern-day whitewashing/PC revisionism of early NZ history.
Readings of earlier texts (eg. CF Manning “Early New Zealand”, “The Musket Wars”) reveal the appalling truth: genocide, cannibalism, and enslavery of Maori by Maori.
In the early 1800’s the far-north tribe Ngapuhi armed themselves with muskets and marched south against stone-age tribes - annihilating, cooking, eating and otherwise enslaving all the members of Maori settlements they encountered all over the North Island. During this process the inhabitants of the present-day North Shore area were overwhelmed, butchered wholesale and feasted upon or otherwise taken into slavery. This genocide explains why there were so few local Maori to resist the European land-grabbers who poured into the area in the mid-19th century.
Read more at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musket_Wars
In “The North Shore - an illustrated history” David Verran’s version of events is brief: the local warring “tribes linked together to unsuccessfully combat Ngapuhi in the early 1820’s...[the] survivors then abandoned the district and the victorious Ngapuhi returned to the north, leaving the area abandoned.”
This terse, sanitized description is typical of the modern-day whitewashing/PC revisionism of early NZ history.
Readings of earlier texts (eg. CF Manning “Early New Zealand”, “The Musket Wars”) reveal the appalling truth: genocide, cannibalism, and enslavery of Maori by Maori.
In the early 1800’s the far-north tribe Ngapuhi armed themselves with muskets and marched south against stone-age tribes - annihilating, cooking, eating and otherwise enslaving all the members of Maori settlements they encountered all over the North Island. During this process the inhabitants of the present-day North Shore area were overwhelmed, butchered wholesale and feasted upon or otherwise taken into slavery. This genocide explains why there were so few local Maori to resist the European land-grabbers who poured into the area in the mid-19th century.
Read more at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musket_Wars
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| a Maori war-party with muskets |
assemblage exhibition
I have been invited to exhibit my assemblage work at a group show at the Depot Community gallery in Devonport, on the North Shore in Auckland.
On this trip I will be spending a lot of time beachcombing and trash trawling to source interesting discards for work for the show and to sell.
One of my favourite finds on the beach are jandals...I cut them into the shape of fish and make a variety of assemblage pieces with them....
On this trip I will be spending a lot of time beachcombing and trash trawling to source interesting discards for work for the show and to sell.
One of my favourite finds on the beach are jandals...I cut them into the shape of fish and make a variety of assemblage pieces with them....
Read my blog on this exhibition:
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