AS 90913: Robyn Kahukiwa Text and Image - Blog Post 1

  Text And Image Source

1.  "Throughout history, written words have been combined with visual images in a form which ranges from the explanatory to the enigmatic, from the constructive to the contradictory, from the iconic to the irreverent, and so on." -  Leslie Ross

" Medieval illustrated manuscripts, in all their variant forms, often exhibit extremely creative and close associations of words and pictures." - Leslie Ross

"texts and pictures and it becomes quite clear that the basic concepts and possibilities for text/image combinations really have a great deal of continuity even though many people might not immediately make these types of connections." - Leslie Ross

Text and image combined have been used for a very long time. 

Robyn Kahukiwa uses text in images to enhance her artwork. If the text wasn't there then the whole meaning of the image would change. Without the text, we would think that this is just another painting staring at you but the words make the image look more impactful especially that it is in Maori since it is her culture. 

The image shows a woman who is wearing a blue garment and a headpiece in the shape of a koru. She also has a baby in her stomach so this shows that this woman is a mother. The red background contrasts with the blue garments that the mother is wearing which make her pop out of the image. The focal point in the image is also the face since it has the most details in the artwork. 

According to google translate, "he tapu te tinana whahine o te whare na te mea tangata te" means "the female body of the house is sacred because it is human"

 Tangata Whenua meaning People of the land. This image demonstrates Text and Image well with the black background making the white text pop out. The text is also repeated a bunch of times " Tangata Whenua" translated to  "People of the Land" to remind us and to not forget.  At the centre of the image, there is an image of a Maori person and their hair surrounding items which represents their culture and text labelling them.