Lei Tag

Courtesy of Niki Hastings-McFall. Recent Zealand artist Niki Hastings-McFall (b. 1959) began her profession as a jeweler, fabricating adornments that drew from her Samoan and Pākehā heritage. Over the a long time, the artist’s creations have evolved in additional sculptural dimensions and she or he has turn out to be well-known for her “lei bombing” installations, through which a whole lot of nylon floral lei are strung together to form sweeping installations that play with ideas of organic and kitsch in addition to questions of the Western gaze. Today, Hastings-McFall is thought to be one in every of the leading contemporary artists who's...