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Whaitara
In this poem for ‘future ANCESTORS’, Tessa Keenan pays homage to Fiona Clark, a Taranaki icon, artist, and exemplary ancestor.
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Tīpuna Behaviour — imperatives and declarations
For ‘future ANCESTORS’ Miriana Jo McGechie asks “Are you? Can you? Will you? How does your commitment taste?”
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Whakapapa Portraits
The wharenui at Rongopai Marae is lined with paintings of a whakapapa full of life and colour. For ‘future ANCESTORS’, Sinead Overbye considers what it means to one day join those walls as tīpuna.
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korowai
Tucked in the back of her aunty’s whip with all the whakapapa, from tīpuna to mokopuna, Isla Huia shares this poem for ‘future ANCESTORS’.
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Hineruru, The All-Knowing One
Saskia Sassen births forth Hineruru, the All-Knowing One, as a visual art entry into the ‘future ANCESTORS’ collection. Accompanied by kupu that build the world around her.
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Te Whāriki Aroha
In this personal and vulnerable essay for ‘future ANCESTORS’, Rangimarie Sophie Jolley reflects on whānau, whakapapa, and takatāpuitanga. Carrying these thoughts with her, she writes to future mokopuna with love in her heart.
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slip / knot
Josiah Morgan explores the responsibility we have not just to our material ancestors and descendants, but also to language itself, and our responsibilities to indulge or eschew our own cultural contexts.
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SOMETHING OF YOU
The world is so vast, so small and filled with the knowledge of those before us. From the moana to the whetū, in this long-form piece Liam Jacobson travels through these places to find the voices calling us home.
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A Hopeful Ancestor
For ‘future ANCESTORS’ Jessica Hinerangi T.C reflects upon what kind of ancestor she is right now, what kind her mokopuna will see her as, what kind she would like to be and what kind she will inevitably end up becoming.
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i wonder
Chris Girven wrote this poem after having an existential crisis on their bedroom floor.
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Being both
For our ‘future ANCESTORS’ collection, Jo Bragg considers what it means to be someone standing in many different worlds.
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