Arts
Origami as you've never seen it before... Artist Sarah Hunter has designed giant origami light-shade installations from her photographs of her much-loved childhood stomping ground on Hawke's Bay's remote Porangahau coast. Detailed photographs of the light shades will sit inside illuminated boxes, complete with a soundtrack of sounds from the area in a series of works she called EMOH - that's "Home" backwards. Sarah has collaborated on the project with origami artist Juliet Black, musician Thomas Voyce from the Wellington band Rhombus, and tamariki at her old school. The Department of Conservation chose Sarah for one of their Wild Creations residencies, where artists are invited to create work that offers Kiwis a different perspective on our motu, our country. Lynn Freeman asked Sarah about her whanau's long association with the Porangahau coast, and Thomas about putting the landscape to music. Sarah Hunter and Thomas Voyce's EMOH installation runs over Labour Day Weekend at Porangahau Memorial Hall, opening Thursday October 21 until Saturday October 23. EMOH relocates to on Sunday October 24 to Porangahau Country Club with a bonus DJ set by Rhombus Sound System.