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Photography is also another one of my passions and am particularly interested in exploring our relationship to the whenua (land) and our role as katiaki (caregivers).

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Quoted from bornofthemist.com :

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 "B  O  R  N  O  F  T  H  E  M  I  S  T

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is the creative moniker used by Timothy Firkin and refers to one origin story, popularized by the ethnographer Eldon Best, of his Iwi (Maori tribe), Ngai Tuhoe which speaks of a direct genealogy back to the land where Tuhoe people descended from a meeting between the mist, and the mountains. Tuhoe people also bear the sobriquet Nga Tamariki o te Kohu ("the children of the mist").

 

The concept that all creative output also arises from a sort of meeting between the 'mist' and that which is perceived through the six senses; forms the basis of his creative style."

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