Ki te kapu o taku ringa - In the palm of my hand [Photography exhibition at Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts]

Abstract

(Exhibition catalogue) The title Ki te kapu o taku ringa is taken from a line of ‘Maioha mō Waikato’ by Kīngi Tāwhiao. Ejected from their homelands he and his Waikato brethren took refuge with their Maniapoto relations in Te Nehenehenui. The maioha was composed expressing Kīngi Tāwhiao’s love for his homelands, and his solastalgic holding fast to those lands ‘... in the palm of his hand.’ The words from the song-poem were used as guide to our research and photography practice