Vanuit de mist - veerboot Russel Paihia

 

Pounamu touchstone - Waitangi treaty ground

Pounamu touchstone

This kōhatu pounamu (greenstone) is a koha (gift) from Ngāi Tahu / Ngāti Waewae. It embodies the spirit of Waitangi and you are welcome to touch the stone.

The water here is used in the symbolic cleansing of tapu (sacredness). This ritual is usually carried out when leaving a place of tapu, in this case these galleries which house many sacred taonga and images of ancestors.

People who follow the ritual dip their fingers in the water and sprinkle it over their head and body. 

Touchstone 

Maori zaal, Hundertwasser museum, Whangarai

 

Rainy days ...... - Ngunguru

 

Boulder - Abbey glowworm caves, Whangarai

 

Sentinel - Matapouri beach

 

Nieuwjaarsdag 2023 - vanaf Tutukaka lighthouse

 

Family-gathering - Northland

Uitzicht op Auckland - Devonport

 

The bosom of Abraham (Michael Parekowhai, 1999) - Auckland Art gallery, Auckland

 

Michael Parekowhai

Ngariki Rotoawe, Ngati Whakarongo

The Bosom of Abraham 1999

Ink on lightbox, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Kōwhaiwai patterns are customarily found within the rafters of the wharenui or whare tūpuna, the ancestral house. A place of tribal identity and council, the wharenui is multifaceted in its purpose. In describing he wharenui of his iwi, Michael Parekōwhai says: ‘[it] is not used anymore, but it is abandoned only in the physical sense. This is because we know we belong to this place. We carry its spirit with us, wherever we go …. Our living marae is really our suburban family home….’

For many urban-dwelling Māori this is a familiar scenario, in which the emotional and cultural values of the papa kāinga (original home, village), where the marae is located, are transferred to the suburban home. In Christian ideology the ‘bosom of Abraham’ relates to heaven and in te ao Māori (the Māori worldview) the term te poho, or bosom, appears in many place names to refer to the nourishment and nurturing of the land. 

Zonovergoten boom - Auckland, Massey

Boom

Twintig  minuten later, tegenlicht

 

Reizen tijdens de kerstdagen - Schiphol

 

Mystiek in de ochtend - Alphen aan den Rijn

 

Lantaarntje - Alphen aan den Rijn

 

Groen - Alphen aan den Rijn

 Groene schildwants op blad van Kiwi

Organise (2005, Bernard Frize) - Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar

 

Zonder titel - Alphen aan den Rijn

 

Ochtendverlichting - Thionville (Fr)

 

Explosion spheres (Arnout Visser) - Escher in het paleis, den Haag

 

Vloeibaar glas, geblazen door een dun net; iedere bol is uniek.

Lamp - Museum Dordrecht, Dordrecht

 

Voorjaarsvorst - Alphen aan den Rijn