special thank you to Misma Anaru on 35mm film wearing three of my neck pieces created during Handhskake4. Kim Whalen. Wha neck-piece, harakeke and proteaceae, 2018. Kim Whalen. Kaimohu neck-piece, harakeke and proteaceae, 2018. Kim Whalen. Takahurihuri neck-piece, harakeke pingau, copper, 2018.
Category: Kim Whalen
finis
Reflecting upon the last two years, and the Handshake4 project. An invaluable unforgettable experience. Going into this I really had no idea what I was getting into except that it was a huge full-time commitment on my end. And boy was it just that. Would I recommend it? Would I do it again? At the… Continue reading finis
Raranga kono workshop
Non-Dualism
Polarities
Kauri Taonga
So while everything putrefies, wars waging, beauties forms are eternal. I seek to honour the ephemeral by exalting it’s neglected, life giving roots, as well as its ephemeral shells. I carry this vessel, inside here watching, eyes that commit, tenacious bleeding heart running through my trembling hands away into the Underworld.. Bound and buried.. In… Continue reading Kauri Taonga
PROCESS
What blooms, dies. Mortality, subject to the processes of nature, is beyond our control. And yet we celebrate life. We exalt a flowers essence – its freshness and singularity- on a literal pedestal, by making its fleetingness exquisitely visible. All too often, however, we capture its intoxicating essence, its ravishing beauty, indeed its very life,… Continue reading PROCESS
The Importance of Preservation
The lessons of preservation, something that I have been forced to focus on these last 6 months, even the last year. One year seems like such an arbitrary number now. One year. One year older. One year living alone in the middle of the bush land of the New Zealand Waitakere Ranges, in a little… Continue reading The Importance of Preservation
Kaimōhū
The forest said Numb hospitality. I don’t want to talk about it. Still listening to everyone else’s problems. I love you like I don’t love myself. I sing for you tomorrow. Sick of being afraid. Tear my page. You wild peaceful being Nothing or no one will ever compare. Bright star. In this sweater, I… Continue reading Kaimōhū
Symbiosis
Silently a flowers blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The whole of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming. This is the talk of the flower, the truth Of the blossom; The glory of eternal life is fully shining here. … Continue reading Symbiosis