The camera as a place of potential

Abstract

"To Maori, the colour black represents Te Korekore - the realm of potential being, energy, the void, and nothingness. The notion of p[potential and the presence of women are what I see when I peek at Fiona Pardington's 1997 work 'Moko'. And I say peek deliberately, because I an being mindful of this work - it is downright spooky. 'Moko' is a photographic rendering of a seeping water stain upon the blackboard in Pardington's studio, taken while she was the recipient of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship in Dunedin in 1997."