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MATUKU & KOTUKU
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Matuku & Kotuku
In full Matuku Moana is the white faced (blue) heron.
Kotuku is the white heron.
A composed plywood sculpture in untreated pine ply, stained and
natural, suitable for indoors.
Dimensions: 800 w x 600 d x 900 h.
I would like to try and explain this work a bit. When I looked up
the Maori words I saw a story in their meanings when broken into parts. As
if a sage was giving me clues, cues or key words to extend my
understanding of what to pray for. |
| If I look down, I see the world. (I = ego
= Matuku ) |
| If I look up, I see the Creator who is
pure spirit. ( I = soul = Kotuku) |
| CUE IN MAORI |
CUE UNDERLINED |
COMMENT |
| IO |
Dear God |
The real God is behind the god that my
mind can understand and is supreme. |
| AWHINATIA |
Help me |
My mind is always full of thoughts. If I remember
God all the time my mind and soul will be purified by God’s Grace. |
| TUKU |
to let go |
I can then let go my little self. |
| WHAIARO |
of my little self, |
My little self is my ego, my mind.
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| NGAKAU |
my mind. |
My ego is to be very small to find the Supreme God. |
| WAIRUA |
so that my soul, |
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| WHAKAHIRAHIRA |
my greater Self |
My spirit or soul is who I really am. |
| WHAKATERA |
can fly up |
My spirit can then rise up to God. |
| IO |
to You |
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to be in Your |
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| RANGIMARIE |
Peace |
God is the Ocean of Love and Peace Who is
inside all of us |
| MOANA |
Ocean |
but we need to get connected to find
Him/Her. |
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I have been found by God and am now aware of how real God
is. I want to communicate this to my friends and others but
words fail me. Also I cannot surmount the pre-conceived ideas people have
about God and religion.
What I have found is that my mind is the obstacle. I have
created this image of myself that I must maintain, my ego. That sense of
"I am the doer" shuts the connection to God Who is right
in side me, with the whole of the Creation in miniature. This Precious
Place inside me had been lost through lack of Balance: I only understood God
and soul with my mind before, but God is Spirit
and cannot be understood by my mind but only by my spirit (soul). |
| I have kept my soul a prisoner by exerting my ego but now I
want to set my soul free so that my Greater Self can find the way back to God.
This happens when I set time aside to meditate on God. Because I
cannot concentrate properly in my meditations I am asking God to
clean my soul anyway, the unspoken part of my prayer I have only just
discovered. |
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| God does so automatically, so I was asking Him to do
His Job. So I gave this work away to a good cause to make room for mark
II, with the right prayer. |
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