Category: Listening To The Land

Kawakawa Dreaming

7/1/2020

Kawakawa dreams of a time when the forest returns

she is patient
she holds her ground
& she waits

she provides homes for insects
she feeds birds who visit her
& in return they bring her other’s seeds

which fall to the ground beneath her

seedlings grow
under her & around her
over her & above her

so she recedes
becomes the forest floor
nourishing as she yields

& in a clearing at the edge of the forest a tiny black seed knows it’s time . . .

Kawakawa Dreaming is a 3 colour monoprint of a heart shaped kawakawa leaf which has been embellished with embroidery & hand quilted.
Materials used are waterbased fabric inks, unbleached cotton fabric, cotton threads, cotton batting.
Dimensions are 32.5cm x 32.5cm framed.

I have donated Kawakawa Dreaming to an Art & Creative Auction which is raising money to be donated to the Red Cross Australia Fire Relief fund.

The auction is being organised by Ruth Ribeaucourt & will be held on Instagram at Ruth's account @Ruthribeaucourt. I’m going to suggest you follow this link to her page for the latest event update.
The auction is scheduled to run between Jan 10th to Jan 12th 2020.

Currently, approximately 250 creatives, from 25 countries, have donated works or services.

It feels good to part of a global event which has the potential to make a difference on the ground (pun intended) &, also to know Kawakawa's dreams can come true.

Please support in what ever way you able

Arohanui
Sal x

Listening to the Land : Spirals

27/11/2019

Spirals, it seems, are a universal symbol & are represented in all our creative practices & although we each diversified our media for this exhibition, interestingly, we chose to create our spirals in what could be regarded as our 'signature media & technique'.

For Isla the tree ferns welcomed her to Aotearoa their unfurling fronds of promise representing 'a forest of new beginnings'. Her own spirals appear as natural fibres spun on to a wire base which hang connected loosely enough to move gently in a breeze. She describes spirals as the 'perfect expression of perpetual movement, in which life both changes & stays the same'.

For Hugh the symbol has come to represent 'listening to the Land' & his is a double spiral, a continuous path without a beginning or an end, carved into the natural surface of 2 very different stones. One a large floor based piece & one smaller mountain shaped piece. Both have come home & now lie in our landscape.

For me I have chosen to represent the natural cycle as a spiral to allow for the passage of time inherent in the cycle. The spiral is a galaxy - at any one time both enormous & minute. I have woven muka through cotton thread to create these forms.

Listening to the Land : a photo journal in the making

21/10/2019

My IG account is currently throwing a wobbly & every time I try to upload photos it crashes.
Such a shame - & also mind bendingly frustrating.
I had decided, because this is last week of our exhibition, I would post every day a little montage of the different sections.
Not earth shatteringly superb photos or any such thing, as ultimately I hope we will create a catalogue, just a few pics to give you a feel of how it looks however

alas

no such thing is possible !
so I'll pop a few galleries here in the blog instead . . .

This is the ‘Heart Space’ of our exhibition.
In this space there are pieces from the 3 of us.

Heart centred works which acknowledge those who have passed, gifts we have received from people who have touched our lives & the gifts we have received from the land.

Kawakawa Dreaming

Listening to the Land : Spirals

Listening to the Land : a photo journal in the making

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