This artwork was the first that focussed on a narrative framed by my family and more importantly it was anchored by our mother, Ruta Sagapolutele, and our sister, Ufitia Sagapolutele, our aiga’s (family) dancers and performers in every sense of the word. In presenting our family, the work is layered in the generational differences of our sister and mother and offered up their voices as movement artists drawing on two distinct artforms – Siva Samoa and Hip-Hop. A snapshot of time, a 2012 take on where they were that have an impact on my practice through the narrative approach that was centered on our lived experiences.

Beyond the original exhibition, they would find life again in 2018 when an email from Christina Jeffrey who was the director of Tautai at the time put me in touch with Dr. Eva Raabe and Alice Pawlik of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt Germany. This would be the introduction to a project that would see the work that embodied our mum and sister find itself halfway around the world and part of an international exhibition titled ‘Grey is the New Pink – Moments of Ageing’.