USE OF ARTSDIARY PHOTOS

© 2022 Sait Akkirman, including all photographs.

" 'VVAI' combines the Māori term for water (wai) with its Samoan equivalent (vai)"

"This exhibition explores the processes and materials of the contemporary Pacific objects
that both artists create." - reproduced from the room sheet.
 

natural pigment swatches on paper
 

natural pigments on paper
 

roll of tapa, fibres, tapa experiments with pigments, rocks used for pigments
 

tapa experiments with pigments

tapa experiments with pigments

video work of place, people, context, and process

tapa cloth with text written in natural pigments

pigment powders

pigment powders in oyster shells

U'a plant gifted by fellow Siapo maker Doran Semu

natural pigment samples on tapa

rocks, shells, sand

stitching and natural pigments on tapa

stitching and natural pigments on tapa

Ashley Taupaki and Jasmine Tuiā