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ABOVE & RIGHT: Cora-Allan<br />
Lafaiki Twiss, Encountering<br />
Aotearoa, <strong>2023</strong>. Installation<br />
views. Dunedin Public Art<br />
Gallery. Photo: Justin Spiers<br />
“It helped embody the story a little bit more. It made me<br />
think about the idea of the Pacific migration from then to<br />
where Māori are now, and [about] our culture… how things<br />
have changed and how art is being expressed.”<br />
She created some smaller works on the boat, of views<br />
from her window and of sites they visited. Her first attempt<br />
at using gold leaf as the boat rocked along in southern seas<br />
was not very successful.<br />
“I’m just lucky I have good sea legs. I purely went to<br />
painting, I didn’t add any gold leaf after that. The shape of<br />
the window started to incorporate itself into my work. I<br />
could see these two lines cutting up the whenua so it has<br />
come into the works.”
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