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You Are Here.

Author :  Whiti Hereaka, Peata Larkin

Product Details

Country
New Zealand
Publisher
Massey University Press, New Zealand
ISBN 9781991016799
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2025
Bib. Info 96p.
Categories Arts
Product Weight 550 gms.
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Product Description

You are Here feels like a homecoming. Home. Both the beginning and the end, te timatanga me te whakamutunga, of an endless journey, with each new beginning different in its own way. As we are told within the opening pages, 'You are here. Back at the beginning again. The beginning, yes, but not where you started.' To be at the beginning again is not the same thing as starting over. A collaboration between Whiti Hereaka (Ngati Tuwharetoa, Te Arawa) and Peata Larkin (Te Arawa, Tuhourangi, Ngati Whakaue, Ngati Tuwharetoa), You are Here is an experimental art book, a dialogue between words and images. Much like the adult colour books that became popular in the early-mid 2010s, this is an adult picture book, similarly inviting introspection, reflection, and meditative, mindful reading. Structurally, the text is based on the Fibonacci sequence starting at 3: three words, expanding, and then contracting again, returning to three, with 'you are here' marking the beginning and the end of the journey. The imagery of the takarangi or double spiral is evoked in the text, symbolising both the beginning and the end, connecting concepts firmly grounded in te ao Maori with Fibonacci’s mathematical sequence visualised as a spiral.

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