Ki tā te Māori, ko te whenua me te whakapapa tōna hononga tāngaengae e mauroa ai te aronga matemate-ā-one i te takanga o te wā. Ko tā te Pākehā mahi he pōhewa mai i ngā whenua me ngā tohu rerekē e whakatakotohia ana e te ringatoi.
Kei tēnei whakaaturanga kitea ai te whenua hei whakaeminga, ‘he totoro whenua kua paparua ki te mahara, te tūmanako, me te whakaaro’ – arā, te hononga whenua me te hiahia whenua.
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For Māori, whenua is a concept that connects land to whakapapa
whakapapaancestral tiesMāori, providing a sense of belonging through time. The Western tradition of landscape painting offers an aesthetic response – views of the land represented and reimagined by artists.
Discover land as an accumulation, ‘a stretch of earth overlaid with memory, expectation, and thought’ – land as connection and desire.
Kī horipū (quote): kaituhi (author) Scott Russell Sanders, 1998
Header artwork: Tony de Lautour, Send off, 1999, oil and varnish on an old oil painting on paper mounted on board. Purchased 1999 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. Te Papa (1999-0021-2)
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