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Marguerite LaingTaniwha Emerging
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 76.2 x 101.6
Condition: New
This painting emerged intuitively, without any conscious reference to a particular landscape. Only months later did I recognise within it the unmistakable form of Lion Rock at Piha, on Auckland’s wild west coast.
For me, it evokes the taniwha — a powerful, primordial presence within Māori tradition, at times fierce, at other times protective, of the living forces of our land and water.
I experience this painting as an expression of the fierce radiance of creation, the ancient, living energy through which the earth continually comes into form. The taniwha here is my own symbolic interpretation, rather than a depiction of a particular ancestral being.
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