The Occasional Journal
The Dendromaniac
March 2015
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Editorial
Alice Tappenden, Ann Shelton, Jessica Hubbard -
For the trees
Rachel Buchanan -
dwelling trees, tree dwellings
Xin Cheng -
Axis Mundi: Long Live the Tree of Life
Prudence Gibson, Tessa Laird -
Forest satyagraha
Robyn Maree Pickens -
Garden City
Holly Best -
Accentuated Breath
Clare Hartley McLean -
On the portraiture of mushrooms
Creek Waddington -
Shade
Andrea Gardner -
bigwoods
Emil McAvoy -
Regan Gentry: Transformer and Master of Time
Sharon Taylor-Offord -
Colonisation versus conservation: a colonial view
Rebecca Rice -
Tae
Bridget Reweti -
The Framing of the Earth
Richard Shepherd -
Wildness in the Garden of Empire
Shaun Matthews -
In search of unknown vandals
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Thomasin Sleigh -
Bo.tan.i.cal: from the Greek
Jessica Hubbard -
The Tree as Traveller: Sakura in space, kōwhai in Chelsea, and the oldest pohutukawa in Spain
Emma Ng -
Seeing the wood and the trees: a complicating history of Hitler’s Oaks
Ann Shelton -
Conversations with Cripplewood
Cat Auburn -
Out of the Woods: The Return of Twin Peaks
Alice Tappenden, Matt Plummer -
The conceptual, the pastoral, and the plainly freakish (or, some of my favourite artworks are trees…)
Martin Patrick -
This is a femme slam.
Sian Torrington -
Explorations
Christian Nyampeta -
Works from the series An Ethnography on Gardening, 2006-2008
Raul Ortega Ayala -
Bent
Jonathan Kennett, Mary Macpherson -
One Shining Gum / Savia Brillante
Christina Barton, Maddie Leach, Zara Stanhope -
Acknowledgments
Alice Tappenden, Ann Shelton
Tae
Bridget Reweti
Ko te manu e kai i te miro nōnā te wao tapu nui a Tāne Mahuta. Ko te manu e kai ana i te mātauranga nōnā te ao.
The bird that feasts of the miro belongs to the great forest of Tāne Mahuta. The bird that draws sustenance from knowledge will inherit the earth.
Kauri and Kahikatea were used in the process of making ink for facial moko as they produced an ultimate black. Their soot was mixed with sap from hīnau and tī kouka among others. These plants aided the healing process because of their antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties.
Bridget Reweti, Wai Kauri., Hand coloured print on German etching paper, 600x420mm, 2014. © Bridget Reweti
Bridget Reweti, Awe Kāpara, Hand coloured print on German etching paper, 600x420mm, 2014. © Bridget Reweti
About the artist
Bridget Reweti (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi)
Currently based in Wellington, Bridget holds a Masters in Māori Visual Arts, first class honours through Massey University, and a PGDip in Museum and Heritage Studies from Victoria University. She has a collaborative practice with Mata Aho Collective, and her musical aspirations are realised through The Live Jukebox, which has performed other people’s songs at Te Papa Tongarewa, Camp a Low Hum, and Shannon.