lives just out of Auckland city, but in a different world
Kōwhaiwhai artist Ra Gossage (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Manuhiri, Ngāti Ruanui) creates Māori scroll designs to tell the stories that surround her. She lives in Pākiri, about 90 minutes north of central Auckland, with her partner and two of their three children, on a property shared by her extended family.
Read this story in te reo Māori and English here. / Pānuitia tēnei i te reo Māori me te reo Pākehā ki konei.
RA GOSSAGE:
Pākiri is where my mother’s family comes from. This is my tūrangawaewae, my papakāinga (ancestral home). I’ve been here since I was 10 when we moved from Auckland.
Mum and Dad had a home in Auckland, but Mum wanted to come home. It was a big change for Dad, but it was good for all of us to get out of the city, into country life and to live among our whānau as well.
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