Post #517329 by Paipo on Sun, Mar 14, 2010 5:37 PM

On 2010-03-04 14:09, coconuttzo wrote:
What happened? Bump again

Sorry, I have been well and truly out of the loop for too long now my tiki friends. As mentioned, I moved towns over the summer and took an extended break from carving. I'm finally creating again in my new space and starting to settle into life in a new town. It's been much more of an upheaval than I anticipated.

I also deleted my myspace and facebook profiles after ongoing frustration with functionality (particularly FB), privacy and copyright issues and too many random inquiries that ate up time but never seemed to pan out. I will have a new + improved self-made site online this year that will showcase my traditional, poly-pop and contemporary carvings again. In the meantime, TC is the sole online archive of my work over the last few years.

Anyway, now we've caught up, it must be time to mix a Mai Tai (I finally managed to locally source both orgeat and Martinique rum over the summer :) )and kick things off with a few pics.....

The new Whare Whakairo (work-in-progress...still lots to do inside with winter on the way):

There are a few tikis scattered about, but I need to fumigate before I can unleash the hordes from their boxes.

Now...some new work. There hasn't been much of this in the last couple of months, at least not of the tiki persuasion, but this will be rectified in the near future.

Here's the swansong piece for the old workshop, and the also my last major project for 2009:

Matarua

...and a couple of pebble pieces from the end of last year:

Rei Puta

Kotiate

To Be Continued....