This work is about the people of Aotearoa having grown up and living together now under our long white cloud, and reflects some of the physical and emotion upheavals of our landscape and changing cultural values.

This Maori proverb “kaore te kumara e korero mo tona mangaro” - “the kumara does not tell how of its sweetness” - means ‘self-praise is no recommendation’.

What about credit where credit is due?

Corrugated iron the male’s domain, copper, holder of boiling water for clothes, dishes and cooking, being seen traditionally the women’s domain

Equal rights or lost opportunities?

The tin shed, a bach, a whitebait hut suggest memories of ‘how it was in the good old days’.