The Voyager

Project: Karakia Whakairo

I look upon Karakia Whakairo as a pathway or connection to the divine, illumination and expansion of knowledge.

In this carving I show a figure tuning into the source (Io-te-wananga) via the third eye and crown chakra, the connective interface between the physical and spiritual worlds. This carving also shows the convergence of knowledge (Hukatai) coming together through accumulation of facts that centralise themselves into wisdom (Rehu-tai) presenting expansion of consciousness.

The carving is made of three sections based on the golden ratio (ф=1.618). They represent the human, planetary and Stella scales and simultaneously the three Maori states of existence, Te Ao, Te Po and Te kore.

I started off the carving with a tiki styled figure at the base morphed into a head at the lower rectangle zone which the viewer can associate oneself with, I have emphasised the 3^rd eye region in the form of a ruru (owl) head, this shows extension and is exactly half a golden rectangle. 

The lighted up v-formation on the figure represents life-force highlighting our bodies solar plexus region, plus at the same time the accumulation of facts (Hukatai), [Sea-foam] as the light comes together at the point of the 3^rd eye area it heads straight up in an organised manner representing wisdom (rehutai), [Sea-spray]. 

Above the ruru head we have a representation of the twelve heavens, these I have depicted in organised layers like a rainbow in the dual forms of the karearea hawk, and the whale back fin to denote travel and experience. The rehutai beam of energy permeates through these levels straight up from the crown of the ruru to the eliptical takarangi spiral representing the cosmos, the abode of Io, the Stella scale and te kore. The elliptical form is reminiscent to the shape of our galaxy, The Milky Way and also represents the duality of the micro and macrocosm.

 The back-plate is in the shape of an upward positioned waka suggested a celestial spiritual journey.