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Breathtaking.

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Jon Apted shared these pictures on Facebook today and I am struck at how this club has become somewhat of a landmark or in my opinion a right of passage if you’ve grown up in Suva. 

If those walls could talk, I cringe and laugh at the thought. But for me it’s the place where I had many firsts. 

I had my first ‘chuma’ in public, where I knocked out in a bathroom stall, where I most of my flatmates and family worked and lastly where I spent my wedding night getting smashed. 

Something vivid I can remember from my party days was getting that Blue VIP Card (I’ve got it somewhere I know I kept it) for the Traps Christmas Party. It was the hottest ticket in town and I was grinning from ear to ear because Gary Apted had put me a 20 something year old on the list. 

Go down and have a beer at Traps remember the good times.

Click on the link to have a peak at the rest of the pics.

Credit: Olivier Lemaire 

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOxdkhdE1RwhKEQNPjHqHmOYU5HMBJusyrSXjLvL00Wwr7ebAQuQuGQ4oSg5jLO7A?key=a053Y3d5bGZ0aW1KcFducnVfcFdZVXYxc2tmMzl3

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I’m excited about this project! 

#TheVeiqiaProject will support and facilitate the research and generation of new work about Fiji women’s tattoo with an inspiring crew of talented #Fiji women artists! The exhibition will open in March 2016 to coincide with the #PacificArt Association (PAA) International Symposium being hosted by @aucklandmuseum. I’m so pleased to have found a space for this project, filled with lots of natural light, on a bus route and easy to find! Nervously doodling until CNZ grants are announced later this month… Fingers crossed! ✨🙏🏾✨ #TeamFiji #Veiqia

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Daughters of Naitasiri high Chiefs in Nakorovatu Village early 1900s Source: https://www.facebook.com/NaVanuaOViti

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Fiji Island Chieftans “Get Religion”. 

“Far from the tropical heat of their native land, these Fiji Islands chieftans, found good use for their trim waistcoats and vests. Civilization seems to have affected them from the waist up only, for they still wear their native skirts. The visitors are attending the world gathering of the Seventh Day Adventists in San Francisco, and are Ratu Setareki Cevocal [Cevaca?], chief of the Nuku Nuku Lakemba tribe, and Ratu Jiali Tikowale, Chief of the Susa Vos.” 

Now I usually hate it when people don’t cite their source...I guess I hate myself now because I can’t find the original source of these images I saved in 2013. 

The  Seventh Day Adventists was held in San Francisco in May 1930. The Central Union Outlook newsletter (June, 1930) reported that the two chiefs were ‘large strong men and wear native skirt instead of trousers and go barefooted. They brought at war club along, mute evidence of their cruelty before they became Christians.” #eyeroll  

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Suva dreaming. 

i miss this view

the mountainous landscape dominating the horizon in every which way you looked

stretching in front of Suva harbour in its many shades of green.

Source: Suva. View from back of Catholic Church, May 1903 (South Sea Islands Cruise) |  Winkelmann, Henry via Auckland Museum

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Shark's tooth, perforated, strung on looped black ribbon, root painted red

Source:  Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.  Woman's earring,  Peabody Number: 78-46-70/15329.

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I need these in my life! 

Source:  Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Fijian wooden combs.  Peabody Number: 05-34-70/65414;  00-8-70/55289

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Somewhere South of Suva 

From Adventures in Paradise, Season 2, Episode 12. 1960

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THIS! 

Village women chant songs to entice turtles to shore, Namuana, Kandavu, Fiji Islands, by Luis Marden. 

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Frangipani days

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Red dotted at The Obliration Room | Yayoi Kusama at GOMA

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Can't wait to get my hands on this! 

#BetweenWindandWater publication… coming soon!

Things have been quiet on the blog front since Between Wind and Water, a residency and exhibition that took place in January at Enjoy Public Art Gallery in Wellington.

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Suva musing

i miss this view

the mountainous landscape dominating the horizon in every which way you looked

stretching in front of Suva harbour in its many shades of green

Source: 85/1285-1241 Glass plate negative, full plate, 'Suva Harbour, Fiji', Henry King, Suva, Fiji and Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1880-1900. Powerhouse Museum http://from.ph/30730 

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VICTORY

EDA QAQA 

जीत Word War II poster | Made in Fiji | 1945 | Lithograph and letterpress Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/32656

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