2nd Year Student Exhibition 2021
2nd Year Student Exhibition 2021
Pepeha - (de) scribing self
Mackenzie Hayward-Williams
23i - 218
walnut, copper,steel/ribbon
400 x 35mm
“Growing up I never resonated much with where I was born or where I grew up. I left the place I was born before my fourth birthday and because I was so young I have little to no memories to connect me with where my family is from. I spent my formative years in Winton a rural town in the heart of Southland and I didn’t relate much to my surroundings there either. But for the first 12 years, we lived in an old red house with a large walnut tree in the backyard, and my sister and I would play, climb and smash walnuts with rocks before engorging ourselves on their insides. Those are the happiest times of my life. Despite the world outside its perimeters, that house was home for most of my life, so much time was spent there becoming myself.
23ii - Discernment
suede, silk and walnuts
170 x 120mm
“Sentimental value versus monetary value. This piece is about a personal experience in my life that opened eyes to the reality of having no money. When you’re young the concept of rich and poor doesn’t cross the mind, you appreciate what you have and I had a what seemed like a world of endless branches to climb and walnuts to eat: until I didn’t have that either. We were given 36 hours to pack up 12 years worth of living from our home and it sat there empty for 2 years before the people who bought it from underneath us smashed it all down including my beautiful walnut tree.”
2nd Year Student Exhibition 2021
2nd Year Student Exhibition 2021
Pepeha - (de) scribing self
Mackenzie Hayward-Williams
23i - 218
walnut, copper,steel/ribbon
400 x 35mm
“Growing up I never resonated much with where I was born or where I grew up. I left the place I was born before my fourth birthday and because I was so young I have little to no memories to connect me with where my family is from. I spent my formative years in Winton a rural town in the heart of Southland and I didn’t relate much to my surroundings there either. But for the first 12 years, we lived in an old red house with a large walnut tree in the backyard, and my sister and I would play, climb and smash walnuts with rocks before engorging ourselves on their insides. Those are the happiest times of my life. Despite the world outside its perimeters, that house was home for most of my life, so much time was spent there becoming myself.
23ii - Discernment
suede, silk and walnuts
170 x 120mm
“Sentimental value versus monetary value. This piece is about a personal experience in my life that opened eyes to the reality of having no money. When you’re young the concept of rich and poor doesn’t cross the mind, you appreciate what you have and I had a what seemed like a world of endless branches to climb and walnuts to eat: until I didn’t have that either. We were given 36 hours to pack up 12 years worth of living from our home and it sat there empty for 2 years before the people who bought it from underneath us smashed it all down including my beautiful walnut tree.”