We Create

We create as a form of expression, it inspires and then wakes something up, in us”. That to me, that is one of the main purposes of our outer differences. It is not to separate but to connect. To see the possibilities of what lies within. What has always been there.

We have abilities to create through sound, colour, movement, touch and then concurrently connect with what we are hearing, seeing, touching and feeling. The connection, is the stir within, a remembering and then a knowing.

At first glance when you look at the portraits, you may focus on the differences, how they look, adorn themselves and live in a live in a foreign land. The differences were not created as a means of separation. My belief and hope, after admiring the beauty, is you are able to say “I see me in you therefore I can”. The purpose of life is to lift up a human being by seeing what another human being is capable of. The belief system that because their outer appearance is different from me therefore their entire being is different, is the barrier that stops us from learning and growing. Not one tribe, people, country, you name it, can have all the answers. It’s impossible! It is from what we create and how we express ourselves that we can be inspired, to learn and finally remember who we truly are.

I am and will forever be inspired by how Papua New Guineans used their creative abilities. How they used what nature has to offer, its colours, texture, shapes and transformed it by moulding, crimping, lathering, layering and intertwining it, to create masterpieces. It honestly brings me to tears because I saw and felt what is possible.