Ralph Hotere

I really connect with the tendancy for some New Zealand artists to use text in their work. It makes sense to me. In Maori culture visual symbolism plays a big part and to me modern text is an extention of this. Words immediately have visual references and they often show a picture with more detail than their literal meanings.

I love the colour pallete used in this work by Ralph Hotere (or lack of it)
again it reminds me of Maori and the natural tones they often worked with. It is a straight to the point pallete that holds no distractions.

'There are few things I can say about my work that are better than saying nothing.'

Quote by Ralph Hotere