Questions of key for going on, the next phase of works. What will I question? What is key? And how will I unlock the answers? These questions pose whether I approach them in one way or another, a moral back ground to a practice which may be considered rooted heavily in a history filled with unspeakable amount of wrongs. I question my materials asking them the difficult questions and ponder over the idea of “landscape painting”, looking at what it all means.
- Approach-How can I build connections between self and place through the expanded field of painting as Tō Iwi? / non Māori, in a respectful manner to traditions and histories of the land/Whenua?
- Morality- How can I approach, respectfully, areas which may be Tapu / scared without being aware of its significance. How can I make a list or set of moral rules to help me navigate through Aotearoa as an outsider who isn’t from Aotearoa but interested in the natural world and learning about it native and endemic species in correlation to issues surrounding building infrastructure?
- Material-What part can materials play in conveying ideas surrounding the issues which I am dealing with, and how can they be added to the narrative instead of averting the viewers’ attention?
- Landscape painting- How do my own paintings sit in a contemporary setting where the history of landscape painting has become heavily rooted in colonial ideologies, and how can I as an outsider of Aotearoa use my works to communicate to a viewer present issues whilst not being disrespectful towards an ongoing conflict?
Llenyd Price 