Jason Hall: Ornaments for the Pakeha

Project Space:

“twenty years of debate has made it clear that Pakeha can’t use Maori art without controversy. This isn’t a sign of a shared visual heritage.”
“Jason Hall’s jewellery operates around a smart discovery, which, plainly stated, is that the things which we have in common are also the things which keep us apart.”
“The bone pickets of Home reveal the central tension of being Paakehaa. Our cultural forms don’t come from here, just as the white picket fence of the colonial villa sits apart from the land it dissects.”
“Hall’s jewellery isn’t easy, but it is important, tackling the fundamental denial – of history and of responsibility – that currently exists at the heart of Paakehaa identity.”
I like this one because the directly address an important issue within the pakeha identity.
By bringing what we know to a new country, it is invasive and doesn’t belong
But we can use or replicate anything from the country’s culture then there is controversy.
http://www.objectspace.org.nz/Exhibitions/Detail/Ornaments+for+the+Pakeha