RAIN-DROP DREAMING: HUNDERTWASSER GOES TO GONDWANAOTEAROA:)

'RAIN-DROP DREAMING'

           

         FRIEDRICH HUNDERTWASSER

     'PEACE TREATY WITH NATURE' 

 'FRIEDENSVERTRAG MIT DER NATUR'

"WE ARE ONLY THE GUESTS OF NATURE AND MUST BEHAVE ACCORDINGLY."

          SUE GREY, ENVIRONMENTAL LAWYER, NEW ZEALAND 

           SUE WITH PUFF THE MAGIC STRANDED PILOT WHALE 

          MANY FELLOW RESCUERS LENDING A HAND 

         PUFF VISUALIZING RETURNING TO THE SEA WITH HER FAMILY 

          THOUSANDS OF PUFFS HAVE BEEN 'EUTHANIZED' AT FAREWELL SPIT NZ 

       PUFF AND FAMILY WHO WERE SHOT IN THE HEAD BY DOC OFFICERS 

           SUE CONSOLING PUFF BEFORE HER FATE WAS SEALED 

VIDEO APPRAISAL OF FINISHED PAINTING

'Rain-Drop Dreaming' is much more than just my latest painting. It's a testament to and record of an extraordinary sequence of events occurring on the south island of New Zealand early in January of this year. It's a symbol of enlightened awareness of the astonishingly ignorant and brutal treatment of stranded cetaceans in '100% Clean and Green New Zealand', of progress towards renavigating the human response to these occurrences and attenuating anthropogenic causation; it's the result of mutual support and true 'community' that characterizes the New Zealand I've come to know and love since I first arrived on Valentine's Day 2000.

What this painting's really about, however, is water.