LEILANI KAKE and My Trip to Te Tuhi

Leilani Kaake: Tino Rangatira Tanga

The work of Leilani explores about Richard Kake (Leilani father) and his Ta moko( Maori facial tattoo) and his last breath where he ends at their Northland family Marae, where he laid to rest. I choose to discuss about Leilani father because Leilani presented to the class about her father that Richard Kake was a BIG IMPACT in her life. This film/ documentary speak about her father being the strongest supporter of her Artist practice, because he is always being consisting o be filmed. Mr Kake said "he felt it was his obligation to record the living culture and history of tangata whenua(family)". This film/ documentary shows an effect, an heart felt, emotional loving film about the death of Leilani father, while i was watching this film, this made me feel apart how Leilani feels because i too lost someone close to me, my grandma, this film made me feel close to Lielani film.

My response to Te Tuhui show;

To today we had to go to Te Tuhui Gallery to look at there show that was happening and when I arrived at Te Tuhui Gallery, the show was called Rapid Change. Rapid Change explores issues faced by cities that have been transformed, responding to the dramatic changes that have been affecting, for example Auckland. For the photo that has a frozen house with ice around it, that has been covered with water for 30 days in winter to create this effect, but before they were gonna take this photo they used Hollywood set up lighting effect. The background for this photo is to show that things like global change, urban change and increase of empty houses in Detroit can be due to these changes.