This work was created to project as a digital liminal space. A Turangawaewae-place to stand. Traditionally Turangawaewae is the Whenua land where you were born & live. It is the Marae-meeting house and it is your Whanau-family. All of these elements combine to make the individual. As I am of Italian and Maori descent I grew up in Europe and we moved between countries, I felt the need to create a mobile Turangawaewae within my art practice. A starting point to refer back to and to develop from. This showing will produce another side to the work, it was first projected in a large room; the floors reflected the light of the moving image and took the work outside of the space. During the White Night the work will be projected on to the homestead & into the garden, to add another dimension to its mobility. In April my family and I will take the work to Nepal Kathmandu as a means of connection between our cultures, also creating collaborative and film work which will add to my Masters research.
