"She is looking within me." -Gregory E. Woods
"BEautiful ...the position of these figures painted by our Sacred Sister Robyn Kahukiwa mirror our carving traditions and challenge us to maintain our dynamism in the co-creation of our Arts and Cultural expressions. I have posted a series of writings on this Artist's works and what is influencing her, to interrogate our social practices, to intervene, to invert and disturb even as a critical praxis of Ourstories untangling re-weaving being present time focused to the diverse realities to which our ARt practice has ever asserted a need to be relevant, vibrant, radically transformative.
Usually our carvings only depicted select and dead Ancestors and in an old form of rhythmic abstractions rather than life like the ARtist contests this on many levels and dares to create and expand once impregnable male bastions of Colonial reactionism which once relied on ignorance to Silence, fetter and obscure Women's social power relations often distorted, reconstructed and re-positioned by morbid over prescribed White conservative Hetero patriarchalized individual/nuclear family Christo/captialist 'Tribalism'. This Sister breaks all the alleged 'rules' to reveal, unmask, free up. Yes, she is looking straight into us all; into our ignitable infinite potentiality for BEing true to ourselves YOUnique and Divine." -Mereana Taki
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