Keep thinking and questioning

While we were on our honeymoon we brought ourselves a gift (several actually, but that's another story). We couldn't take it home because it was in an exhibition at Tairawhiti Museum. So it didn't arrive at our house yesterday.

It is by Lina Marsh.

The embroidered state houses (there are 21 in the series, all different) represent a "life of dependency" and if you look beyond the convenience of state housing you see how trapped people become in this lifestyle.

I guess this is not your typical honeymoon 'souvenir'. Instead it is subtle and powerful that I hope will remind us to look beyond the everyday and to question situations we take for granted.