My name is noa hāmana (b. 1998) I am a Naarm based interdisciplinary artist communicating 21st century Indigeneity. My work draws on my knowledge of toi Māori, anthropology, and literary devices to create a unique cultural vocabulary through world-building and storytelling. Whakapapa narratives run a thread where space and time folds, cultural figures, forms, patterns, and motifs fuse with my own cultural context and personal experience. Born in Ōtautahi, Christchurch, my whakapapa goes to Ngāti Kura, Te Whare tapu o Ngāpuhi, and Ingarangi. I explores and critiques different facets of colonialism, such as its religious and economic theories, and their continued effects of deprivation. My art communicates the phenomena of time through mythical, and sometimes religious interpretations of the archaic. In doing so, I dive for the deepest fish of the sea and loosen the tangle at the bottom of the net.