Reverse shot of the main space, revealing the kōhatu that anchors the pou.

Rocks touched by plants, fish and humans ranging from millions of year old fossils to Lapita pottery fragments ca3000 years old, to painted kōhatu by Jo Tito and Kohana Clothier, my daughter (whakapapa traverses both forwards and backwards).

A 2 million year old fossil (Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, 2023) of a crab impression.

This I speculate to be a weight for holding an eel snare in place. I found it as a child on my family urban property, which was a dried river bed presumably a consequence of draining the Ōtautahi (Christchurch) swamp.

This is a carved shark with inlaid shark teeth by Randy Christian who lives on Hitiaurevareva. When I asked how the teeth were obtained, after assuming sharks might be washed up on a beach, I was informed the creative process begins with “catch the shark.”

A kete by Daphne Warren reveals the direct heritage of making within the heritage of the wahine (women) of the Bounty.

My father’s WW2 Morse Key – he was an operator in the Royal New Zealand Air Force and stationed on Norfolk Island, where he and my mother met. She swam into him at Emily Bay a well known and sheletered beach inside a reef that is popular with islanders.

This woodcut on rag paper is by Sue Pearson, who also grows the trees to make her own ahu (tapa). She recently relocated to Norfolk Island, so needs to commence the process beginning with the trees, once more.

This Georgian writing beareau is contemporary with artefacts from HMAV Bounty – there is an item of furniture in a Hitiaurevareva household depicted in the 1820’s, that has identical footing detail. I have speculated the item of furniture depicted may have come from the Bounty, as the transportation of such a large item in the 1820’s seems unlikely, though is possible.

The saga of the Bounty entered into popular culture through five feature films and numerous books. Here it is as one of Royal Doulton’s historical ships series.

This whanau view is an authenticated print created in Paris in the 1830’s based on drawings made on the island in the 1820’s. Clockwise from left John Adams, George Young, Hannah Young nee Adams with child, Mauatua, and Tinafornea. All are tupuna except for Tinafornea.

My grandmother Christine Rose Young nee Quintal. This is a documentation image from the exhibition and a reflection of The Flower of Life can be seen in part. This is one sense of diffraction – looking through one to another.

My parents wedding photo in 1948 in Tamaki Makaurau. On the right is my Auntie Alma, who gave me the nickname Pasha when I was a child. Again The Flower of Life is reflected in the documentary photo.