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The first of Reuben’s current series of works was seen during the Scape 04, From a Different Angle, Art and Industry Biennale held in Christchurch, October 2004. The work entitled Whakataka Mai, Do you see what I see, was a large scale site specific work using 157 metres squared of black and white linoleum and was created in front of Christchurch’s colonial and historically loaded Riccarton House. That work, Whakataka Mai, Do you see what I see and Reuben’s new body of works, using diamond dust and made for his Auckland solo show - April 2005, deal with people’s connection with land and landscape, their energies existent after their physical presence has gone. His new work touches on aspects of Maori history particularly; Maori presence in the landscape that is often not acknowledged or made visible by landmarks or memorials in the same way Pakeha/European presence and history is marked. His new works embody ideas associated with waahi tapu, wairua.
‘The new works that I am working on are inspired by how peoples energies have been absorbed by the land. It is really about how people have inhabited the land, spiritually and created monumental energies and intense feelings there.The challenge for me was to try and recreate that intensity, evoke that energy in visual form.’
– Megan Tamati Quenell
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The first of Reuben’s current series of works was seen during the Scape 04, From a Different Angle, Art and Industry Biennale held in Christchurch, October 2004. The work entitled Whakataka Mai, Do you see what I see, was a large scale site specific work using 157 metres squared of black and white linoleum and was created in front of Christchurch’s colonial and historically loaded Riccarton House. That work, Whakataka Mai, Do you see what I see and Reuben’s new body of works, using diamond dust and made for his Auckland solo show - April 2005, deal with people’s connection with land and landscape, their energies existent after their physical presence has gone. His new work touches on aspects of Maori history particularly; Maori presence in the landscape that is often not acknowledged or made visible by landmarks or memorials in the same way Pakeha/European presence and history is marked. His new works embody ideas associated with waahi tapu, wairua.
‘The new works that I am working on are inspired by how peoples energies have been absorbed by the land. It is really about how people have inhabited the land, spiritually and created monumental energies and intense feelings there.The challenge for me was to try and recreate that intensity, evoke that energy in visual form.’
– Megan Tamati Quenell