The tears of Ranginui TE AO MĀORI | ISSUE THREE | WHENUA Written by Skye Lunson-Storey  (she/they/ia) | Whakatōhea, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tūwharetoa | @uku_rangi   Arts, Culture, and Te Ao Māori Editor Concrete weeps. Steel remembers. Water carries the weight of what we’ve buried. When rain falls in Tāmaki Makaurau, it carries the memory of wetlands drained, rivers forced underground, and land reshaped by colonial infrastructure. My recent artworks explore these relationships between wai,...

ARTS | TE AO MĀORI | TUAKIRI / IDENTITY Written by Skye Lunson-Storey (shethey) | @uku_rangi  | Arts, Culture, and Te Ao Māori Editor Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua: ‘I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past.  In an age of disappearing stories and endless scrolling, there’s something radical about ink on paper. It archives. It refuses to vanish. For Indigenous and minority communities in Aotearoa, that permanence has always mattered. Print has historically been a...