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Tichi 

 

a 3 meter bronze sculpture situated on Currie Street, New Plymouth, outside the Quest Hotel. The work explores ideas of technology - old and new - and it's impact on te ao Māori.

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the work is a customary Māori tiki that has been pixelated, making it less recognisable and therefore open to interpretation.

Tichi (pronounced tiki) i spa play on the words tiki and techology - thus it references modern technology, though made from the ages old cast bronze making process.

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Some may see Tichi in the traditional cultural context as a symbol of fertility providing notions of genealogy and continuance while others may look to the pixilation of Tichi and its relationship to current technologies and the way we now live our lives through relationships, mediated by digital channels.

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