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Aotearoa 1 - New Zealand

My country is Aotearoa - Land of the Long White Cloud - more recently known as New Zealand. These paintings of Whai Repo (the North Island), a big part of Aotearoa - a beautiful place on earth in which to Be. See Gallery: Aotearoa II (South Island) also. Whai Repo is the 'Stingray', not someone asking you to go out and repossess a vehicle. If you look at Kiwiland from high up in the atmosphere you will see the Stingray - Northland is the Tail, the area around Wellington Harbour the Head, and Taranaki and East Cape the Fins. The Maori knew its shape long before satellites, otherwise they wouldn't have called it the Stingray.

[This gallery needs a lot of work, sorting and that sort of thing. To surf one of the other galleries - go to top left and CLICK ' > inanga >'].

Enough of the technical, sit back and enjoy Whai Repo (the Stingray) on your HD screen.

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inanga > Castlepoint

The ideal Kiwi holiday destination - promise dolphins, lighthouses, sand, surf and seashells.

acrylic, oil and gold leaf on board 2007
inanga > Google Earth painting of Castlepoint

courtesy of Google Earth
inanga > Castlepoint, East Coast, NZ

acrylic and oil on stretched canvas

FOR SALE
inanga > The Creation of the Miramar Peninsula

acrylic, oil, gold spray paint, silver paper and Rogaining map of the 'Miramar Peninsula, Whanganui-a-Tara' (1:25,000 i think!) and collage on Rogaining map, 2007

FOR SALE
inanga > Ms P - Renoir Cloud
inanga > Kiwi Watercolour

1200mm x 900mm framed

FOR SALE
inanga > Stonehenge, Aotearoa (NZ)

Out near Carterton in the Wairarapa is a reconstruction of Stonehenge. Every one knows that this stone henge was a calendar but we in Kiwi Land are in the southern hemisphere and our alignments are arse about face so to speak. So they built us a calendrical observatory that matched the Matariki calendar

I am sure the Druids drifted here because of some cosmic mistake. Thank God they did...

Anyway i'll leave it to the Kiwi Druids to explain their reason for settling in the Wairarapa:

Welcome to Stonehenge Aotearoa
  
For millennia people have gazed in awe at Stonehenge and other great stone circles, often totally unaware of how these structures were used. Now a full-scale working adaptation of Stonehenge has been built right here in Aotearoa, allowing all New Zealanders to experience the wonders of  stone circles for themselves. Situated in the Wairarapa countryside, a short distance from Wellington, Stonehenge Aotearoa is a window into the past where the visitor can rediscover the knowledge of their ancestors.  It incorporates ancient Egyptian, Babylonian and Indus Valley astronomy, Polynesian navigation, and Celtic and Maori starlore.

Built on the same scale as Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in England. Stonehenge Aotearoa is not a replica.  It is a complete and working structure designed and built for its precise location in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand. In this awe-inspiring place, people young and old can explore the mysteries of our past and learn how early cultures, including New Zealand Maori, used the Sun, Moon and stars for life and survival.

Come with us and we will take you on a journey in space and time.

The best feed for their site is: http://astronomynz.org.nz/stonehenge 

When i was writing the Plains States for Lonely Planet's USA: a travel survival kit, i had the opportunity to spend a wonderful afternoon at Carhenge. What a magnificent sculpture that breaks up the ennui of the Nebraska Plains. Its a long drive from Platte River to see it, but its worth it. Nearby is another - sorry 'auto' sculpture called The Seasons. Magnificent. i wonder if i can get them on Google Earth cam. i once had around 6000 pics of various places in the world but i lost them in a divorce settlement. One of life's three woes... divorce, death and 'de bank'.

Have fun...

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inanga > Moonlight, Pitangarua Pinnacles (near Ngawe, Wairarapa)

The DOC website has plenty of great info on this little known Kiwi feature. Try: http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-visit/wellington/wairarapa/aorangi-forest-park/features/putangirua-pinnacles/ to get there.

They also offer excellent feeds to our National Parks, Great Walks and Hut Accommodation. You never know, they may also know where you can best find your very own phi-losopher's stone - pounamu. They know where to find the 'myths of heaven'. The pinnacles are crazy under a full moon alone - just the mindset for a mad painter and loony poet.

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inanga > Hawkes Bay Sunset, Aotearoa

FOR SALE (without shadow of course). Sorry, but the truth is it is a tiny detail from my 'Tat tvam asi' dedicated to Ken Wilber. I think the original is in Germany. I was going to call it 'Homage to Waipukurau'. The farmhouse is in the bottom left-hand corner and the sunset is 'going off'.

gouache and acrylic on paper unframed

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Castlepoint

The ideal Kiwi holiday destination - promise dolphins, lighthouses, sand, surf and seashells.

acrylic, oil and gold leaf on board 2007
 > Castlepoint

The ideal Kiwi holiday destination - promise dolphins, lighthouses, sand, surf and seashells.

acrylic, oil and gold leaf on board 2007
Castlepoint

The ideal Kiwi holiday destination - promise dolphins, lighthouses, sand, surf and seashells.

acrylic, oil and gold leaf on board 2007
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