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WORK IN PROGRESS

Tūramarama

Purpose

Concept: Towards development of an indigenous speculative futures, net positive multiverse AI/ VR game. 

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To learn more about our ancestral matauranga Māori connecting to the skies (Ranginui) to better understand the earth (Papatūānuku).

 

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Drawing inspiration from the stories of Te Whanau Marama & Te Kāpehu Whetu.

 

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This is an exert from the research, drawing/ sketching process through to developing concept & produced artworks that flow out along the way. 

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Vision

Ongoing documentation of the elemental activities in the skies, to learn and to understand weather patterns from ancestral knowledge.

Encouraging inherent memory, by remembering to acknowledge the Atua within the natural world.

Drawing towards net+ multiverse AI learning from an indigenous perspective. Players will be the architects building new world scenarios.

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PŪTAKETAKE*(BASE ELEMENT OF A PATTERN)

An evolutionary process learning whakapapa and stories of the skies - mark making with light as memory. 

1. DOCUMENTING NIGHT SKIES WITH LONG EXPOSURES

Elementals

2. DOCUMENTATION WEATHER PATTERNS - learning with the environment.