About

The show is a response to Wawata: Moon Dreaming, a new pukapuka by Dr Hinemoa Elder exploring the emotional and spiritual dimensions of Hina, the Māori moon. Dr Elder comments, ‘Hina, the Māori moon goddess, has 30 different faces to help illuminate life’s lessons—a different face and a different energy for each day of the month.

RONGO,

A time for sensations, for our senses.

Seven faces of uku collected from my papakāinga held safely by toka in the seasonal sky. Pressed with kōwhai, harakeke, rāta | dream-catchers, time-holders, rongo-ā.

“We all carry stories of leaders in our whānau, in our whakapapa, our lines of descent, that lend themselves to different nights of the moon.. maybe it is time for you to begin to live their dreams. The dreams they had about you” - Dr Hinemoa Elder