In this glittering image, someone has gathered harakeke, toetoe and other pieces, then lassoed the stalks with other grasses so together it would hang – dead and upright. An improvement on the Medieval. And she agrees – as a kokowai blush rises from the masonry. 

The Church near to Aramoana is named Iona – or “dove” – and recalls an island in the Hebrides. There is grief in the air that holds things together here. Light in the cracks that form in the dark (à la Cohen, à la LDR). A celebrity prophet’s hope and an “oceanic feeling.”✞ A sense revealed in the name of a tablet that is proceeded by a skin graft, Tūmanako, a noun and a verb; a wish, to hope for.

Tihei mauri ora indeed girl.

✞ In a 1927 letter to Sigmund Freud, Romain Rolland coined the phrase "oceanic feeling" to refer to "a sensation of 'eternity'", a feeling of "being one with the external world as a whole.”