Māia Royal

wai o rongo

Bachelor of Visual Arts Mixed Media Moving Image Sculpture Te Ao Maori
AD25 Award
Toi Māia Award
For cultural contribution to mātauranga Māori and indigenous knowledge

wai o rongo

Ko wai koe?

From what waters do you flow from?

Ko Tikapa tōku moana

Ko Waimangō me Waikato ōku awa.

“Water is the sustainer of life, it is the amniotic fluid, it is the place in between, where the dreamers neither take a breath nor come to the surface.” - Bill Viola

Ngā Wai o Rongo speaks directly to a part of the journey the wairua will venture on after leaving our tūpāpaku in te ao mārama. A time of transition, when the spirit begins its haerenga back to Hawaiki, the place of our origin and our return.