Te Pộ is an interior realm that celebrates and venerates Iộ as Creator. Of all things tangible and intangible; physical and non-physical; natural and supernatural. Iộ, the nothingness, the darkness, and the light. For the spiritually astute Te Pộ will be familiar and well turned earth. For others Te Pộ will be like coal.
The following observations are an exploration of a spiritual cosmos - a deep space reflected as a luminous night. An all embracing darkness that is creation inclusive of the light. By the luminosity of Atua – Te Pộ is further elucidated. A magnificent view of universe vivid with diverse compositions, and countless colours and hues.
Painted is a broad depiction only. The palette of Atua is the base shade solely - the red, white, and black. In concert, Te Pộ is a splendiferous world coloured richly by a lexicon of hues to the details and to the shadows. The trichromatic tones - bedazzled by spirited shades of corporeal colour.
In the colours that paint Te Pộ, disregard the murkiness and dullness at the core of human dark matter. The negative blackness that is a human contrivance. Like the darkness of night the spiritual space Te Pộ is radiant with potential brightly. No catastrophic events or downward spirals exist. Potentiality purely welded to Possibility.
Te Pộ is a spiritual manifestation appropriate to a contemporary age and rendition. Building on the traditions and conventions expressing Te Ao Maaori – The Maaori Worldview - but not a reproduction thereof. Te Pộ traverses alternate terrains – a spiritual scape whose shadows are intensely pronounced and richly conceived in untainted clays, metals and gems.
Te Pộ altogether shuns the mass rationality of the western tradition - that condemns the massless to oblivion. The night thus an apt description – an embracing darkness dappled by many spectrums of light. Embracing also an idealised notion of a spiritual identity - where we ought to be in the age of post modernity.
Ultimately, Te Pộ is a narration of relationships – a binding sequence of events. A whakapapa inked lightly in dark matter. To bind a people, to a particular place, and to a higher purpose. Interpreted herein as Te Pộ - the place; Taangata Wairua - the people; and Iộ Maatua Kộre – the much higher purpose.
Hine Te Pộ
Te Waananga ộ Te Pộ
28th October 2006
