Arawhiti Āniwaniwa Rainbow Bridges

Arawhiti Āniwaniwa refers to bridges and rainbows, together making ‘Rainbow Bridges.’ This is a theme for a series of works and events, which includes new works and Kāhili, installed at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery for a period of five years. Arawhiti Āniwaniwa are intended to bridge Moana culture to Western culture without recourse to logic and rationality, and be accessible by all ages and genders – this was prompted by Kawaihululani. Developing the intuitive resource is important to nourishing the human connection to environment, as clearly rational statistics are insufficent to being about substantive change.

Discussion of rainbows led to an investigative period with prisms and revisiting previous works exploring light. There is also a sense of Rainbow that intersects identity. So there is a tripartite meaning here: from visible light to intuition to identity.