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Faces of Earth

In this gallery we look at our identifier, the face (unless we are twins), the faces of some of our animal companions, and the art of iconography.

A lot of work has yet to be completed on this gallery, so please bear with the artist (who has to also paint to live).

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inanga > The Beast - first study for 'Beauty and the Beast' see Faces of Earth gallery for the end result. I gave this study to my mate Simon Behind the Scenes, not to be confused with Simon the Peacemaker. The study is of Rangihaeata, nephew of Te Rauparaha and one of the main characters in my novel 'The Night Fishermen'. I'll write more about all this later. I am right now trying to remember exactly what went into this painting. Oh, yeah, Rangihaeata had a prominent Roman nose and was known as the parrot's beak. You can see that in the centre right of the painting - stylised as a Titahi Bay Beach expanse of sand. Underlying the map is an actual topographic map of Titahi Bay that Simon and I had used in an afternoon rogaine. No, rogaine is not a pill, it is an adventure sport. That is another story. For the time being, get back to the media used in the pic inanga! gouache, acrylic, oil, plasticised rogaining map Titahi Bay 1:25,000, collage from banner, string in topknot, glitter paint and greenstone pendant 2006 Kaitiaki: Simon Behind the Scenes inanga 300mm x 420mm unframed
inanga > The Beauty detail from 'Beauty and the Beast' Ms P modelled this - she wouldn't sit still so i temporarily removed her head and placed it on a pedestal for the duration of painting. Who voted it to No 1 on my Popular Photos - you were reading my mind. Lately i've been a bit testy with her - 'cos of this bloody site. i probably called it hog productions because i am forever making a pig of myself. inanga
inanga > Beauty and the Beast Collage Somehow Ms P likes this one. collage of Rangihaeata and Ms P courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009 inanga
inanga > Karearea - The Eye of Ra gouache, acrylic, oil, glitter, gold leaf, charm bracelet and kauri leaves on paper, 2006 SACRED MA-URI STONE Ra: Maori, 'God of the Sun'; Egyptian, 'God of the Sun' This stone was regarded with great veneration. It represented Mankind: Man, by the surrounding outline (male organ and beak combined), and Woman and the Land by inner circle and ring. It was usually made of the finest jade (pounamu, greenstone, nephrite). To the New Zealand Maori, 'Ma-Uri' were sacred words. 'Ma' meant the Improved Man [or Woman], and 'Uri' meant the offspring by Sacred Marriage of Selected Parents. That is, Ma-Uri means the Children of God, the Sons [and daughters] of Heaven, the Holy Family; where-as Pa-keha (the name given to Europeans) means the Insanitary People) ('Pa', clan, people or nation; 'ke-ha', insanitary, diseased, stagnant, bad-breathed, scrofulous, syphilitic) - a reference to the spreading by Europeans of such diseases as syphilis, gonorrhoea, tuberculosis, etc., etc.' [Ettie Rout, 1928] 210mm x 300mm SOLD Germany
inanga > Kabuki Sun detail Acrylic, oil, gold spray paint, papier-mâché, Japanese paper costumes, beading on canvas, 2007 FOR SALE
inanga > Kabuki Sun (collage by Cat). The Sallies is a pet name for the Salvation Army. I have shopped there regularly for cheap clothing and art materials – frames, backgrounds, glass and other knickknacks. I found two faceless Japanese paper costumes on a card and thought that some time later they could be used in a picture. My partner has a sister we call Cat, and she is an accomplished craftsperson. I gave her the painted canvas background, the paper costumes and a couple of photographs of possible faces. The rest of this remarkable piece is her doing. She fashioned a superb 3-D Japanese kabuki scene by refashioning the paper garments, making papier-mâché faces and beading and sewing to the canvas to produce an ethereal curtain and sun. I framed the completed piece and it was taken away for exhibition. I can’t say much more than that as Cat really created this piece. Acrylic, oil, gold spray paint, papier-mâché, Japanese paper costumes, beading on canvas, 2007 FOR SALE POA
inanga > Repose (black pen on 80gsm photocopy paper) FOR SALE POA by inanga
inanga > Hinemoana o Te Pauanui detail FOR SALE 540mm x 1040mm inanga
inanga > Surfing the Ecliptic detail Surfing the Ecliptic An artist spends a lot of time thinking about the weirdest of subjects. At the moment I am all-consumed with the ‘end times’. Most will know this as an analysis of the Mayan calendars (Long Term, Short Term and Venus) and the fact that they come to an abrupt stop at 11.11 am, 21 December 2012. Google 2012 a couple of times and you might be suitably surprised. No one now disputes that the Mayan calendar is deathly accurate and that when it winds down to 13.00.00.00 a new baktun cycle will start. It will start anew, hopefully at a greater level of consciousness. Each full round of the calendar has as its endgame the elevation of the species. All sorts of other strange things are going on at the same time. You think this a kook-fringe conspiracy theory at this stage - all I can say to you is welcome to most blissful ignorance. A day Google-ing should at least open up your third eye enough to allow you to begin to question the current consensus reality. I am not making it all up but am merely attempting to paint a universe in chaos and then happily in greater chaos. Chaos is our true state - a state of ever evolving possibilities in such ratios as 3:4:5, 1.618 to infinity (Phi), 1.58 (13.20 ratio), etc, etc. We are the most cleverly constructed suprahologram and if you break us down into our smallest parts (even beyond atoms) then the hologram can still be reconstructed from that - the macrocosm in the microcosm or ‘as above, so below’. We are surfing the ecliptic towards this date. It is a date when time stops in the mythological calendars of the so-called primitives who were indeed spiritual pioneers in a much more golden age - the Hopi of Hotevilla, Az; the Nagual of Mexico; the tohunga of the Waitaha in New Zealand; the Hindu writers of yuga sequences; and the day of judgement of religions too numerous to mention. In the middle bottom of the painting you can see a face constructed out of red swirls. This is backed by a star chart that indicates the ecliptic we are surfing. It faces North and M36 sneaks into play… It is said that on 12/21/2012 that the Earth crosses the ecliptic of the universe and the sun at this point gets in the way of the emanations from our galactic centre, hence a total galactic eclipse of the earth (and perhaps a total eclipse of our hearts). The Mayans called this xilbalba be (the road to the Underworld) and forewarned us that we should be on the lookout for it. I suggest you try: http://www.2012unlimited.net and Mayan-timing.html as good sources and go to viewzone and find Dan Eden's informative article on 2012 www.viewzone.com/. I finished the picture (I thought!). I picked up several tubes of acrylic paint, squirted them on the canvas, and then let my partner Phil spray it with a garden hose three times. WYSIWYG. Strange, but Isis’s third-eye is open! Acrylic, oil, gouache, astronomical & facial collage, a garden hose and three well aimed bursts of water on canvas by Ms P, Easter 2009 inanga
The Beauty

detail from 'Beauty and the Beast'

Ms P modelled this - she wouldn't sit still so i temporarily removed her head and placed it on a pedestal for the duration of painting. Who voted it to No 1 on my Popular Photos - you were reading my mind. Lately i've been a bit testy with her - 'cos of this bloody site. i probably called it hog productions because i am forever making a pig of myself.

inanga
> The Beauty detail from 'Beauty and the Beast' Ms P modelled this - she wouldn't sit still so i temporarily removed her head and placed it on a pedestal for the duration of painting. Who voted it to No 1 on my Popular Photos - you were reading my mind. Lately i've been a bit testy with her - 'cos of this bloody site. i probably called it hog productions because i am forever making a pig of myself. inanga
The Beauty

detail from 'Beauty and the Beast'

Ms P modelled this - she wouldn't sit still so i temporarily removed her head and placed it on a pedestal for the duration of painting. Who voted it to No 1 on my Popular Photos - you were reading my mind. Lately i've been a bit testy with her - 'cos of this bloody site. i probably called it hog productions because i am forever making a pig of myself.

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