Overview
Unique collaboration in words and art
‘This is beautiful. A beautiful production, a beautiful concept, and it’s beautifully executed’ — Stella Chrysostomou, RNZ
‘The sensitive design, the meticulous crafting, the cadenced patterning of word and image driving the story back to that initial three-word statement build a compelling and haunting experience of finding a way back home’ — Sally Blundell, NZ Listener
‘An affirmation of belonging that is both forceful and compassionate’ — Sally Blundell, NZ Listener
‘Beautiful production, beautiful concept and beautifully executed’ — Stella Chrysostomou, RNZ’s Nine to Noon
‘Linking language, memories and landscape’ — John Daly-Peoples, New Zealand Arts Review
‘Not only to be read but to be held, examined, and revisited’ — Chris Reed, NZ Booklovers
‘Manages to achieve something remarkable’ — Jade Kake, Kete
‘How wonderful it is that this pairing of classical mathematical theory with te ao Māori should work together so well’ — Kelly Ana Morey, Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
‘As cousins, Larkin and Hereaka have deep connections. In this work, layer under layer, they encourage the reader-viewer to seek their own. The closer one peers, the more tangled it is. Splendid’ — Jessie Neilson, Otago Daily Times
The sixth book in the remarkable kōrero series, edited by Lloyd Jones, features Jan Medlicott Acorn Fiction Prize winner Whiti Hereaka and the acclaimed artist Peata Larkin, cousins who share the same whakapapa, in a collaboration based on the Fibonacci number sequence. In a feat of managed imagining, Hereaka’s words spiral out to the centre of the book and then back in on themselves to end with the same words with which the text began. As the pattern spools out and then folds back, Peata Larkin’s meticulous drawings of tāniko and whakairo and her lush works on silk weave their own entrancing pattern. ‘It is my hope that by the time you have walked that path that you are now a different reader and will read those words in a new way,’ Hereaka says. You Are Here is a beguiling and important addition to the kōrero series.
- | Author: Peata Larkin, Whiti Hereaka
- | Publisher: Massey University Press
- | Publication Date: Mar 13, 2025
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9781991016799
- | ISBN-10: 1991016794
