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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 37, Number 9. 1st May 1974

Rarotonga Beckons

Rarotonga Beckons

A new holiday haven nestling in warm Pacific seas.

Rarotonga beckons. A new hotel (the Trailways) is open and Air New Zealand operates a direct fight from Auckland. Now Union Holidays can take you to the haven at Rarotonga.

This is your chance to revel in a Pacific Island paradise. Enjoy swimming in the warm, crystal clear waters. Plunge beneath them to explore the mysteries of the coral reef. Visit the wreck of the tailing ship "Yankee". Go big game fishing. Every day of your holiday will be a delight.

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"I am very well aware of what is going on out there in the world, otherwise I wouldn't be able to work as I do. My works certainly relate to what is going on out there. I do not try to run away from myself.

"I use the outside world to give me hints."

"My work is in a way related more to European society than New Zealand. This is because more people over there are doing work similar to mine, the public sees more of it, and can therefore relate to it more easily. I react to New Zealand society more in what I do than in what I draw. I just happen to spend a lot of time drawing. But I relate to NZ when I talk to people, or go for a walk on the beach, in the hills, in the mountains.

"But my work is about what is going on in my mind. The type of work I am doing I could do in any country in the world, or I could do it living at the bottom of the sea.

"If I wanted to relate to the New Zealand land, I would want to go somewhere where man has not touched. Where could I find that?

"I like the art of mime. My drawings are like suggestions. Words are often too obvious. Sometimes it is better to make a gesture. Gestures can convey so much more than words."

"An immortal disintegration" a fish and lizard type creature

"An immortal disintegration"(1973).

"If you really look at the drawing it will disappear, because the essence of it is to do with yourself, it is inside you. You have to look past the drawing in order to sec it, just as you have to look beyond a person to see what that person is really like. If you look at the obvious in my drawings you will see nothing."

"My drawings take too long to be spontaneous. To put the first dot on is to make the first decision to spoil the perfect expanse of white paper.

"Once I was about to start a drawing, and I had a clean sheet of white paper before me. A fly came along and left a tiny dropping on the paper. I began from there, the speck the fly made was the beginning of the eye of a fish. The fly has responsibility for the drawing."

"I don't understand my drawings. I can only understand parts of them. As soon as a drawing is finished I have a different vision of it to what I had when I started. I could do a hundred different drawings of the same subject.

"I cannot explain my drawings. I can try to tell you about them in words, but they would be meaningful only for that instant."

A detail from "The many faces of my genie" showing disembodied heads

A detail from "The many faces of my genie" (1974).

A detail from "Before the cry" showing hatching birds

A detail from "Before the cry" (1972).