Te Pō

This work responds to the concept of te pō, as it sits within the wider whakapapa of our worlds origin, and the ways this whakapapa is being used as a pou for this kaupapa. As takatāpui we generally have no reference sources and kōrero tuku iho to be able to understand how our takatāpui tīpuna lived. As such, reinvention, recreation, the following of intuition becomes the space that we must inhabit to find ourselves. Te pō, to me, seems to offer a safe dark space, a void of endless potential. There, amongst ourselves, and with all those who have come before us, we weave new understandings of how we as takatāpui might inhabit the world. te pō considers the creation of the world through 12 phases of te pō, and how we as takatāpui might create and recreate ourselves in a similar way.

te pō is visually influenced by the geometric patterns of woven whāriki. The font BackOut is an open-source font created by Frank Adebiaye and Ariel Martín Pérez.

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