WHO AM I

KO WAI AU

my story

I’ve been walking this whenua,

finding light in all my

shadows.

Light I chase, sun I bathe within.

Story, sun baker, water chaser.

Time is my destiny.

I work with my hands and my heart — and it’s never about

output

it’s always about

relating as deeply and honestly

as I can.

Firstly, I am a

human being

living in a

CURIOUS

WORLD

An observer, a listener, a carrier of

moments

I move between mediums the way breath

moves through the body

painting, carving, photography, film, sound, poetry

each one a doorway

never the destination.

My practice is grounded in mauri

the unseen energy that binds us

and I follow it wherever it asks

me to go.

Into silence, into noise, into story, into stillness.

I’ve spent over

two decades

capturing life

weddings, whānau, streets, stages, film sets

but what I’m really capturing is

connection.

The space between people.

The moment something becomes real.

I create spaces too

for others to arrive as they are. Through sound, through wānanga

through image, through presence.

Spaces where

people

can remember themselves.

I’m not chasing perfection.

I’m chasing truth.

A feeling. A shift. A return.

Everything

I make is an offering to the

whenua,

to the people

to the moment

that will

never come again