
Though this artwork now sits far back in my past, I have nonetheless included it for display on this website, for it marks a productive if not also unusual time in the development of my engagement in the question of art making. I began my tertiary education in New Zealand, in a small art school run mostly by Americans. At the time of my study, the institution boasted a role of around 120 students, and we were all working in an out-of-the-way community – a place that was perhaps not best known for its involvement in the arts, but for its high rate of retirees, its relatively large Māori population, and the social and economic gulf that existed between these two groups.