While the word ‘Waiata’ is Maori for song, ‘Marama’ is for light or clarity.

Hence the ‘Waiata Marama’ Series is a clarified development of the earlier Waiata works.

These visual-songs have become lighter, and brighter, in both form and essence.

“...sensually curvilinear and ‘unfixed’.

In ‘Waiata Marama: Floating on the Red Dawn / Awatea’ and ‘Waiata Marama: Song for a true friend / Atiwhai’ (both 2003), the unfurling lines dance freely and explore, even break free of, their grid format.  Begun in the early 1990s and inspired by Maori waiata (chants), these works are full of echoic notation and free flights. The spiralling lines arabesque around and across the several-colour, collaged areas and reach beyond – like grace notes in a chant voice.” 

(Dr Cassandra Fusco)

Exhibited:

Carpet Court, Dunedin, 2003-4,

Salisbury House Gallery, 2006