Future Fales II - Limited Edition 30 of 55 Print

Fale is a traditional Samoan house, being half Samoan I have been enhancing my identity through architecture The term “Paper Architecture” arose from Russian Architects come artists “ Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin”. Frustrated by the dogma communist block building of the 1980’s, they channelled their output into creating a series of monumental etching’s that depicted a fantastic surrealist architectural landscape, wildly opposing the mantra of the regime. These works on paper could only been seen abroad and could never be exhibited in the Soviet Union. I was fortunate to see these etchings in Wellington in the early 1990’s. From seeing these works I became obsessed with cities, skyscrapers, structures and the anti-war will of surrealism. Ever since, my pursuit has been to be a Pacific futurist: furthering patterns, symbols, and structures of our environment. Recently I have been consumed by the geometrics and repetition of Siapo (tapa cloth) patterns, interior fale (traditional Samoan House) roof pattern and fale shape. This body of work explores an open narrative of Pacific influenced patterns and structures with a will to re-imagine towards a new genre and possible future scenarios.