Nga Paepae Hou | New Vessels

exhibition: 18 July - 2 August 2008

Sonja van Kerkhoff + Sen McGlinn

invitation

Print out the front on an A4 page (204 kb) :: Larger view of the back (92 kb)
Larger view of the front on an A4 page (63 kb)

Images of work in this show that are available at high quality for the press:
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A larger view of Te Wa O Nga Hau Iti
The place, space, time, of small (short) breaths is here (64kb)

She stitched it close, 1988/2008.
computer print adapted from a drawing.
Edition of 35.

This pastel drawing and the text below are from
the 2008 version of the New Vessels series.

The thread in the hand of a kind mother
Is the coat on the wanderer's back.

Before he left she stitched it close
In secret fear he would be slow to return.

Meng Chiao

The declining side of evening,
when light is trapped and bleeding,
and swifts' erratic scissors cut the sky
over the darking mangrove flat.
The hills as heavy as skulls.

(lines 1 - 9)

More images from 2008 version.
Background about the poem and the first series in 1987.

Nga Paepae Hou | New Vessels

exhibition: 18 July - 2 August 2008

Sonja van Kerkhoff + Sen McGlinn

The thread in the hand of a kind mother Is the coat on the wanderer's back. Before he left she stitched it close In secret fear he would be slow to return. Meng Chiao

The declining side of evening, when light is trapped and bleeding, and swifts' erratic scissors cut the skyover the darking mangrove flat. The hills as heavy as skulls.

The thread in the hand of a kind mother
Is the coat on the wanderer's back.

Before he left she stitched it close
In secret fear he would be slow to return.

Meng Chiao

The declining side of evening,
when light is trapped and bleeding,
and swifts' erratic scissors cut the sky
over the darking mangrove flat.
The hills as heavy as skulls.