PROVENANCE
Purchased from Michael Lett, 2007

Our meeting house in my iwi homeland has two sides and a ceiling. It's got no carving. It's just little. It's not used any more, but it is abandoned only in the physical sense. This is because we know we belong to this place. We carry its spirit with us, wherever we go …. Our living marae is really our suburban family home … Michael Parekowhai Connecting the ancient art of carving with the new art of screenprinting, plastic moulding and commercial lighting, The Bosom of Abraham offers a powerful evocation of that underlying spirit.