Tītama Te Pō, Tītama Te Ao

"Tītama te Pō, tītama te Ao"
Hine-tītama, ‘she who bounds night and day’  references Hine the Dawn Maid who in her mating with Tane produced the first human being Te Ao Mārama. Featuring exploratory designs from the artist's practice of tā moko or customary Maori tattoo, a practice she began over thirty years ago, the tattoo piece is entirely imagined from ideas both completed and not yet realised...