Opening night:
Friday 9th August, 5pm – 7pm

The work holds up constellations of flowers as stars, and as the series of work progresses they may perhaps come to represent the cosmos and consciousness.

Clematis Paniculata (in Te Reo, Puawānanga “flower of the skies”). A New Zealand native high climbing vine that crowns trees with profusions of large, white, star-like flowers. Māori oral traditions say that white-flowered puawānanga is the child of Puanga (Rigel, the top star in Orion) and Rehua (Antares in Scorpio). Puanga’s rising in June marks the beginning of winter, and the rising of Rehua in December signals summer. Puawānanga blooms in the months between them.