Out of Africa

In recent months I've been collecting

ebony elephants, so many that

they seem to be wandering around my studio.

(which is also where I live.)

In the background here, is a photo of a house

that my mother lived in when she was a little girl,

the oldest child of a large family.

Several of that family, not only my mother, but her mother

as well are just to the left of the elephant, out of frame, but I guess that's no

help to you just now.

My grandfather worked for the railways. I think that this photo was taken

near Taihape, below Taupo, in the centre of the North Island.