Lisa M

@lisam74.bsky.social

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Arts producer, researcher, poet, artist, Wikipedian. I'm a white New Zealander living in Aotearoa gratefully because of Te Tiriti o Aotearoa. He Tangata Tiriti ahau He Pākehā ahau Toi Tū Te Tiriti Toi Tū Te Taiao Toi Tū Te Reo Mauri ora

An orange vase with orange flowers and greenery on a sideboard with bowls, oranges, a glitter ball skull, feathers. Art work is on wall.
A drawing of an eel in pencil in a notebook. Words say "connect with a waterway and share that with others"
Caught in two bubbles, a young woman with long brown hair and brown eyes and a young man in a suit with curly black hair and brown eyes stare at the camera. The word 'Waenga' between them is boxed in.
Sketch black in a white notebook. A column with two brancing diagonal beams reaching for the ceiling
A taxidermied dog on a display. Long body. Mostly white fur (medium short) with a spot on its back. A crooked expression
Under Urgency, Pay Equity, Class Weaponry Spike that bitch with a stiletto Cut that worker with a clause Slash that bottom feeder with a heave-ho Its ok, all my mates have crypto I am in control of all the bylaws Spike that bitch with a stiletto What you say blah blah super ego Red and jolly like santa flaws Slash that bottom feeder with a heave-ho I’m looking forward to our Guantanamo Cunt cunt gives the censor pause Spike that bitch with a stiletto Lah di dah di dah politico Whiny women and their bed sores Slash that bottom feeder with a heave-ho Smooth the under-race with a pillow Meow meow and pussy jaws Spike that bitch with a stiletto Slash that bottom feeder with a heave-ho (L. Maule)
Colourful face drawing short hair and glasses staring directly at the viewer
Collage painting a persons face layered on top of hand silhouettes. Painted and arty. The person has short hair and glasses. Collaged words overlap the face. "The past is calling and it is saying" "Hey you gormless shits listen to the undermined"
An ink and watercolor sketch in a notebook of an insect with googly eyes and wings and also in the sketch are words mostly not readable apart from KIKIHI it's a very sketched sketch splattered paint
A lyric theatre before a show from the circle. Red seats a few audience heads in front, the stage set framed in the proscenium
Small sketch in a notebook of a notebook, pen and glass. Loose watercolours bring life to the sketch. Notes above the sketch read: linesmen appear to converge to vanishing poison off to the left and right
Black and white sketch of a Celtic style pattern
Cut out pictures of a brown parrot eating a berry with a heart and the word 'will'
Performers in green and black costumes dance through a hall. Lights shine, audience surrounds. A guitarist pays.
In a large room a group of people in casual clothes are moving in a line. It's an arty photo, quite blurry.
A sandy shoreline curving into the distance at dusk with a pretty sky and a dark land silhouette
Image is of text: It's as easy as this whānau. I / we wish to make the following comments I oppose the regulatory standards bill. I do not support act party principles prioritizing individual and property rights over the collective well-being of people and the environment. I / we wish to make the following recommendations. I recommend that the bill be rejected.
Pencil drawing of scissors held up for display in a note book
A large drawing of draped clothes are taped to a door.
A door to a kitchen has a big drawing taped to it. A charcoal sketch of a garment draped artily. A jacket with a hairy collar. Faint words read 'an iresolvable tussle'
Charcoal drawing of a garment hanging up, and a photo of the garment hanging up on a wall light.
A charcoal and pencil sketch with mixed up shapes and shards and bits of faces looking out. Some text reads Drawing from films, JESSB and GK, C, GS, GA and WD
Two show promo images at BATS Theatre: SWEETIE - an image of a woman with weirdly orange face makeup and red lips staring at us with her hand on her hips. She has short wavy brown hair and a confused look. WHAT ARE DREAMS MADE OF - a pensive face stares up to the side, her head rests on her hand. She has a terrible blond wig and there is a little cartoon face too, with a similar expression.
Photo collage. on a bit of paper is handwritten in black ink, 'Unity is not sameness'. Underneath three photos of an opened seed pod that is a bit like a flower with three petals
Photo of a book. The title 'making space' is artily displayed letters partially cropped in image.
The text is handwritten in a lined note book and is a bit of a mind warp to read with a double line. It reads: You Should _ you should don't you know? there is all this... why don't you? didn't you know? you should.
Collage from letters, colours and illustrations cut out. Text is 'why not' with a cut out drawing of a naked person showing their bum turning towards us. Happy and free in their nakedness. In the image is also coloured shapes overlaid into animal illustrations. A tiger, a bird, it is partially obscured and hard to make out exactly.
Repeated pattern, textured monochrome rectangles and triangles
On a ledge sits a stone, it's a sea smoothed piece of brick. Painted on it is a wedge of watermelon. Trees are in the background.
A square image featuring blue sky, clouds, dark blue ocean, grey beach some confusing images of rocks? Hills? A fence? The images are reflected in a mirror across and below with the hill at the edge of the bay forming triangles.
Poster with decorative ferns and flowers text is advertising the next Karori Community working bee, 2 March 2025. www.karoricommunitygarden.nz
Text 'we don't have to respond in the moment' handwritten and collaged into a glass framed pencil life-drawing of a women reclining, facing away and in thought.
Book cover in a frame. Artwork feeling very 60s (because it is). A white women all in black clothes with a sexy kickass pose and a massive beehive hairdo. Text says "meet the world's most dazzling female secret agent Modesty Blaise a Novel by Peter O'Donnell"
Handwritten words collaged onto an abstract background on a background of plants in the sunshine. Text reads: Hear the intangible See the air thick with light Feel the music of moths Taste the smell of imagination Be present Be present Celebrate life Mauri ora
charcoal sketch of a hand cut out and stuck on a wooden cabinet door. A bit of paper across the bottom of the hand says in handwritten ink 'Unity is not sameness'
Black white and grey abstract drawing, an oval with triangles, squiggles and triangular shapes on lined refill pad.
A closed-laptop with stickers on it including some from Wikipedia, eg. 'citatation needed', Wellington WikiCon, prominent is also FREE PALESTINE and Together for Te Tiriti. And a closed note-book with a pattern and some writing on the cover: 'Be a critical consumer of ideas and challenge your bias' and 'explore the history of your ancestors and people'.
Montage of Toi Tū Te Tiriti signs and painted on people shirts
An angled view of a two shelf wooden bookshelf with books vertical and horizontal. Some titles visible include "Frontier of Dreams", "Decolonizing Methodology", "Searching for Charlie" and "Marilyn Waring, The Political Years".
image of three things jaunty overlaid on a wood grain desk: 1. a fancy certificate with a decorative border that includes a name, a signature and a heart, 2. a gold ribbon that says WARMAN SCHOOL GRADUTAE, and, 3. a small book cover printed on plain paper with small plain writing that is not much like a cover and a lot like the publisher details page of a book including the barcode and the isbn number