Ta'apai Mataoa
I work with a variety of media. It's a juxtaposition of old and new, contemporary and rooted in tradition, sometimes explosive and sublime. I strive to bring outward perspective and inner processes into tangible living forms. My inspiration comes from environmental reverie where the liminal spaces dissolve and I can no longer tell where one form ends and the other begins. If you surf or run marathons or count butterflies next to a babbling stream you might know what I mean.
