FADING SEXUAL CURRENCY

In our world, beauty and youth can be everything. They are the currency with which we purchase social standing, connection, and admiration. When a person or an object is past what society considers its best, they can be overlooked and pushed aside despite what they still have to give. This is particularly true for women, who can be held to very lofty standards of physical beauty and youthfulness.

In truth, with age comes wisdom, achievement, even more beauty, and a sh*t ton of character. An older woman is a treasure—like a flower, she blooms after a long period of growing, preparing, and aging. This project was inspired by an incredible woman, Rachel’s mother Pauline. She loved peonies, and loved gifting them to people. Unfortunately, a peony’s life span is short, and so was Pauline’s—she died in 2013 due to cancer.

Life is fleeting, and it leaves no time to worry about how we are perceived as we grow into ourselves. The plant world is a fantastic way to represent this—I have captured stunning flowers which only get more beautiful as they get older.

You are beautiful, and you deserve to bloom beyond a “best before” date. With this project, I want to honour our older women.

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Toetoe

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Toetoe

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The major traditional use for toetoe was to line the inner walls, roofs, and partitions of houses and other buildings with the stems (culms) called kākaho, producing a neat finish. Long straight, light-coloured kākaho of an even width were preferred and much time was spent collecting these. Elsdon Best, writing of the Urewera, said the best kākaho for house-lining came from a toetoe variety known there as kākaho-matariki (possibly A. toetoe or A. fulvida). The toetoe with larger but more crooked culms was called kākaho-puha (possibly A. splendens). The hollow culms were also used as shafts for hunting arrows, straws and pipes, spears in games, and frames for kites.

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The image is printed on Giclee Fine Art Paper , which is 100% cotton, acid and lignin free paper. We use Epson ultra chrome archival inks, which has been designed for museum quality photographic and fine art work.

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A2 - 420mm x 594mm, limited edition of 12

A1 - 594mm x 841mm, limited edition of 12

AO - 841mm x 1189mm, limited edition of 12

All prints are hand signed and numbered. A Certificate of Authenticity will be supplied to the purchaser. You will receive the lowest numbered edition available, unless requested otherwise.

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