Whakarare

As part of Auckland Pride’s first Takatāpui festival - Te Tīmatanga, Fern’s has designed the the third and final iteration of three Whāriki, which look to whakatīnana (embody) the foundation laid out by our Takatāpui elders before us, recorded and emboldened by Dr Elizabeth Kerekere's PhD, “He Whāriki Takatāpui.” 

Known within toi whakairo, because the fluidity of design is difficult to carve. The name refers to distorting or chaining straight haehae lines. 

For Te Tīmatanga Whakarare signals the mobility of Tangata Whenua & Ngai Iwi Takatāpui, honouring our ability to adapt and our persistence. It commemorates how we explore, and experience, our feelings, processing, confronting, changing & accepting.

Takatāpuitanga is the innate, multifaceted embodiment of our Tīpuna and informs all of how we move through the world. Be that in, taking the city in our stride, returning home or building our internal worlds - our Takatāpuitanga is an inherent technology of our Manamotuhaketanga.