Artist Lonnie Hutchinson speaks on the use of Te Reo in her work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=18&v=FcaXFWR02Gg
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art. (Leonardo da Vinci) Ko te tokitope, ko te whao ngau, he tohu mauri Ko te tātaki kawai he whakaara wairua Ko te taumata atua, takaia ki te koroawai parirau E hikina ai i tōna taongatanga ki te matakite, ki te rangatiratanga (Ngā Toi i roto i te Marautanga o Aotearoa, 2000)
Have you ever wondered who made some of those amazing moving sculptures in Wellington?Len Lye
(Born New Zealand 1901, died New York 1980)
- film maker
- kinetic artist
- painter
- writer and theorist
- one of the first modernist artists in New Zealand and Australia
“All of a sudden it hit me-if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can’t there be figures of motion?” – Len Lye
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