STORYBOX IN COLLAB WITH DESNA WHAANGA-SCHOLLUM
POU RAMA
ABOUT THE WORK
Pou Rama (Light Posts) will illuminate Wellington.
The installation features a series of free-standing light structures. These are inspired by pouwhenua (land symbols of support), and represent markers of creative ahikā (fires long burning).
Designed by Storybox in collaboration with Desna Whaanga-
Schollum, whakairo designs in black metal structures express cycles of creativity, and connections to place.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Storybox
Robert Appierdo
Creative Director/Founder
Robert has a background in the arts, design and political science. His passion for storytelling and creating experiences stretches across film, multimedia, vjing, creative direction and light/art festivals. He is a hybrid creative type who is only truly happy when he is developing new ideas and then making them come to life with purpose driven people.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Desna Whaanga-Schollum
Desna Whaanga-Schollum collaborates with a wide variety of communities, business professionals, artists and academics to achieve results which effect change in people, practice and place. She serves on several designand arts governance boards and is actively involved in Māori discourse via research, exhibitions and wānanga. Her Science Communication Masters Thesis (Otago Uni), is titled “Taipōrutu, Taonga Tuku Iho. Articulating a Mātauranga Māori Sense of Place.”
The thesis reflects upon the complex system of interconnected factors contributing to the current relationship between Māori and their land base.