072hin_A GOTHIC MAORI ENGLISH ROSE WINDOW

Regan O’Callaghan has produced this ‘picture window’ which incorporates Hinemihi. Having been recently over-awed by Mark Burry’s ‘inventive restoration’ work at the Sagrada Familia (with its ‘kitsch’ gothic windows that ask: “what is kitsch when viewed over a 1,000 years?”), I wondered what if Regan’s window could actually become Hinemihi’s window in the future? A Gothic Maori  English Rose window? As witnessed in many Gothic churches. After all, a Maori meeting house has church-like characteristics in that it permits both light to enter and the darkness of death to pass out. In  Maori meeting houses, the living enter through the door and the dead are passed out through the window…

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