Filming the whakapapa paper sculpture creating a digital weaving of ancestry
'The people of the spider, Ngai Pungawerewere, were the customary, traditional keepers of all the whakapapa in Waitaha..
starting from the glimmer in the sky of the first light, would relate the whakapapa of all the universe sensed, seen and present, from the dark of the night, to the glimmer of light in the universe, into the brightest of lights then the slow shadow of the beckoning darkness of the night, into the darkness of resting again..'
- Waitaha Grandmothers
The song I was listening to while filming the whakapapa sculpture is 'Inner Strength' by Beyond Maya
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Taniko is a traditional maori weaving technique the patterns hold meanings; sewn onto korowai or cloaks.
I filmed my chalk drawings of DNA strands & taniko stitching. I wanted to portray the movement of digitally weaving my whakapapa or genealogy into the light drawing project film.
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