Post #386879 by congatiki on Fri, Jun 13, 2008 5:04 PM

I've been thinking of a comment for this thread for several days and when I
finally get ready to do it...VanTiki says it all!
Hello, I spend most of my time in the "Creating Tiki" thread. In my 58 year
old escapist mind "tiki" is about mystery, danger, forbidden places, as
VanTiki said "objects my friends and I would dream of finding in the
jungle." I love the mugs, paintings, vintage tiki bar stuff, but more
than that I love the primitive art and mystery of places like Easter Island,
the villages of the Sepik River, wondering what happened to Michael Rockefeller,
Kon Tiki, Attenboroughs BBC documentaries on New Guinea, and the like. I try to reflect a little of that mystery in my carvings. I don't get much of a
reaction in Wisconsin when I say that I carve Tikis, so I generally tell
people that I carve Polynesian-style gods and spirit figures. I'm not
sure they "get it" but it's somewhat easier to explain.
So in general, I would say that I am even more of a "purist" than BigBro,
if that's possible. :)