I hadn’t thought about taniwha in decades, until a couple of months ago when I was working in New York City. When I was young my grandmother shared Māori stories of taniwha with me, and I only realized recently that a Māori bone carving pendant I inherited from her is a taniwha. Taniwha are protectors […]
Compositions
Black Teeth
Many of us are tossing up our lives during the pandemic. Sometimes as a fantasy of “what-if”. Other times literally moving households, jobs, and relationships, or passing from this world entirely. We might move towards old haunts and old loves, and that comes with its own ghosts and baggage. And so, alongside a life-long fascination with […]
Great Conjunctions
Bones always conjure a kind of cultural seriousness. Without them we are floopy sacks of water, gristle and glop, and some would argue, we don’t seem to be more than that. Bones are associated astrologically with the planet Saturn, which had that rare “great conjunction” with Jupiter in December 2020. Those planets are symbols, respectively, […]
