About Me
Kia Ora, my name is Alexander George Matiaha.
This Project is a depiction of two lands and a relationship to the resurrection of what is dead. It commemorates the working class of the Uk as well as to cultural extinction. My research began observing speculative interpretations to rock art and the idea of a de-extinct UK. My main aim was to critically assess my creative process and research.
I design to supplement the long-established demographics of neglected markets. The aim is to provide space for indigeneity and the Queer experience without exploitation. Enriching creative spaces is my goal through a continuation of critically analyzing innovation within my work.
INSPIRATION
Research of this project began with looking to my ancestry and the wealth of knowledge I inherit.
I am- in part- by extension, those who came before me and here Is where my ‘power’ is. An idea or epiphany is sent from my ‘gods’, those from which I come, those who I share the physicality of my brain with, those whose trauma physically runs in my blood. Influence is unavoidable. Being able to acknowledge the origins of our thoughts allows us to create actively, knowingly, and effectively something new. To engage with what is neuroplasticity,
I used Rag weaving and Tāniko in denim and rope. These fabrications embody the beauty and ugliness of our power in strife. It embodies the warp re-entanglement of our Mana. It cries out the 30 million owed in leased fishing rights, it screams Land Back. I wished to acknowledge the treatment of the working and the classism in the UK, to show the way we are carried on their backs. The pieces take on the form of rekindled remnants by layering Matching Piu piu under the rag weaved over piece.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
DETAIL
Final Piece Editorial
kākahu and Puipui for Nga Taneroa
“This [is] the commencement of our complaining to you … we shall never cease complaining to the white people who may hereafter come here.”-Matiaha Tiramōrehu 1849
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