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McCahon the Manl

McCahon the man, but defined by who? Awkward the way we tread around our land we must say. But to say so by any and so is slander or worthy of a Weetbix award. Finding our way around this and this plot we stand for requires innovation and forgiveness of our actions in hindsight as well as in advance. Corrugations, ruts, furrows imbedded from time, changing the vision we thought we had for ourselves.

Our man, master of a craft, transfixed on our greenness, saw the cold hard light. Others before and after him more often than not, came to make the same decisions.

Opua, August 2009