Post #254471 by el Stingray on Thu, Sep 14, 2006 4:30 PM

Wow it´s great to see that Kiwis are also roaming Tiki Central. I love the NZ style of art, tattoos and dances!

And it´s also great to see how proffesional carvers like you do it. I will study closely how things are done.
But I understand that copying native art and sell it is not cool. It´s really diffcult to not fall into this when you love
the styles so much, but I´ll try to do it on my own way. With respect to myself, and not at least with respect to
all the cultures out there that this belongs to. I met a native Canadian in July that was a gem carver. He said that
if I tried to copy his stuff, he´ll cut my head off. But I said don´t worry, I don´t want to. But I told him that to get
inspired from other cultures art I felt was kinda legal.

Again great stuff Tamapoutini! I´ll promise you I´ll be back, but now I have to go to bed. It´s 01.30 am
and I´m going to work in the morning...