Tāne

Artist: Conor Jeory

Title: Tāne

Medium: Carved tōtara fence post

Dimensions: H: 32cm

Artwork kōrero

This piece of a totara fence post A sliver From a giant, from the forest That was chipped up into farm posts dividing up the hills with wire and wood gulagged Without its cloak the bared land washes away streaming into rivers Into Our bays This anthropomorphic representation Carved Into This Weathered, beaten post-top..... No longer the Living Guardian- Now a spirit at rest Inscrutably