Fissure

Pacific leaders often talk about Polynesian unity, closer ties and interaction but it is a façade filled with rhetorical nonsense. East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet. This is illustrated by the leaders of Niue, Samoa and the Cook Islands refusal to allow scheduled plane services from each other’s countries due to the misguided delusion that there is competition between their respective countries when in actual fact the countries are exquisitely complementary to each other. The fissure between the rocks is a metaphor for this political and cultural division. In this sense the painting was originally going to called “Pacific Fissure” however in my desire to avoid regionalism I dropped the “Pacific” and so the painting is able to be read as a metaphor for more universal divisions.

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