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:: Robb Kelly & Joseph Slade :: Artists Work::
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“I have absolutely no problems with the full blood, they mind their own business… it’s the others, in the cities, who are stirring all the trouble.”
(Circa 1978, non-blood relative, kitchen conversation)
“Nana Lil was one of the last pure blood’s up north, but we didn’t know until after her death. None of her blood lines had been tainted.”
(Circa 2002, Great, Great Grandson of Nagti Kuri Chief, Te Hupata Kaka)
Slade, a Maori-Anglo-Yugoslavian and Kelly, a Scottish-Irish-Jew partner to play with traditional and contemporary conceived ideas about purity of race and the contamination or pollution of one’s heritage by mixing bloodlines. Is the ancestry negated once the linage is infected? Or, do cultural combinations have exciting possibilities to enhance future generations? Is it a blemish or a beauty mark? |
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