Weaver and Maker

Mixed media found feathers, muka and ceramic shuttlecock. Dyed and natural muka cross stitched badminton racquet.

My final piece for this years BDCA exhibition - TOI WHAKATIPU
The kākahu (cloak) is made out of used bicycle tyre innertube donated by Tumeke Cycle Space at the Gribblehirst Hub.

The inner tube is prepared, cut and threaded taking many hours to make. The making of kākahu is something that is very labour intensive and time consuming. It can usefully be described as ‘lap’ work - easily transportable and therefore a symbolic container for remembering the places, times and people where the work was constructed. Not just an aesthetic visual and material object, it has memories woven into it, a celebratory connection of the past, present and future, which further consolidates the work as belonging to, and made from, for whānau.

If you wish to see my other pieces and fellow tauiras work the exhibition is open this weekend at Unitec Building 108.

Nga mihi nui
Cathy