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A gentle rhythm: Mount Albert renovation
Second chances. Danica Paki and Samuel McConnell believe in them. One year after they missed out on the house they’d scaled mountains for, it came on the market again. This time, they were ready. They did not hesitate.
Most people run for fitness but Paki and McConnell would regularly tackle the 135-metre climb of Ōwairaka, after the long haul from their first renovated home (an ex-Statie in Waterview), as an exercise in discovering the area. “We became obsessed with this part of Mount Albert: the lovely views, the personalities, the mix of cultures,” says Paki.
The house they secured second time around is elevated well away from the street, with its back to the maunga and its face to the north. Built in 1948, it has a red-brick base, stucco upper level and art deco features that are its winning hand. It was built by the parents of the old lady who had lived here all her life. She had Croatian roots and her name was also Danica.
Some would say it was fated that Paki’s future be linked to that of her namesake’s past. The couple, in their early 30s, couldn’t wait to turn the house, with its anachronistic aesthetic of apricot carpets, blue vanities and a kitchen from the ’70s, into their own.
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THE PANTOGRAPH PUNCH
Raukura Turei paints with natural clay pigment, evoking the sensuality and sovereignty of atua wāhine. Jade Kake speaks with the artist.
It started with grief. Raukura Turei is candid when she talks about the origins of her visual art practice. Initially is was repetitive movement, more than anything else. Mark making, surrendering to the mindless actions of her body. From the depths of a Canadian winter, alone after a separation, she found solace in putting pastel to paper on every kitchen table she found. On days spend alone in a friend’s apartment, so as to not have to actively dwell on the turbulent events of her present; and perhaps, to avoid giving thought about what might lie ahead. Recalibrating, rebuilding a life and an understanding of one’s self.
When I meet Turei at her Freeman’s Bay home on a bright Auckland spring day, she couldn’t be further, physically and mentally, from the place where her work was first conceived. “I’m probably in the best space I’ve ever been,” says Turei, almost eight months pregnant. She welcomes me into her living room, which also doubles as her studio. The space is light filled, sparsely furnished, and filled with books and art and plants. We sit on the floor and share kai and a kaputī.
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