Post #302337 by Tamapoutini on Fri, Apr 27, 2007 4:01 PM

Cheers Hewey, BenZ, Tipua & Flynny (hope you like the M.Kava-kava!)

Here's the breastplate/waka I started a couple of nights ago. Its a fairly tight/complex design so I drew it up on paper first & then transferred onto the stone. 3.5 x 2" approx.

Oh Lordy; what have I gone and started? Its projects like this that most often find their way to the very bottom of the Box, but not this time! This design is another contemporary 'fusion' of cultures; the shell or stone breastplates being used by many/most Polynesian cultures.

To me, the seven figures on this represent 'the Seven Sisters' (the seven stars of the Pleiades star-system, historically a popular cluster for Sth Seas navigation) The figures also represent the brave Explorers themselves & the co-operation/trust necessary to make such travel possible.

back...

Ive got to put 'these' guys down for a bit now. I really burned myself on them all day yesterday & just cant look at them properly at the moment. Thats the way it works sometimes; you can only do so much to a piece before its needs 'digesting' for a while. At the moment when I look at it, my eyes instantly go blurry. Ill know when its ok to work on it again when I instantly see what needs attending to on it! :lol: Promise not to let it sink into the murky depths...

Hope you likee!

Tama :)