https://www.chapterntk.com/home daily 1.0 2026-06-16 https://www.chapterntk.com/readings-reflections daily 0.75 2026-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/9b4f6cbb-0673-4d5d-933a-3f3708cd842c/taniko+-1.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/929b0a8f-9c46-447b-bda3-121a057fdc06/IMG_5695.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/d37ddf83-8fae-4b9f-9f4e-70642a6b83ea/Kiwaha+FINALS_V1a_cricut+file.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/3d4f3bcd-d91b-4360-979c-44f45efb43f6/W%C4%81hine.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/d72366f9-e304-4612-b582-82e3e07cb6ad/Rawe+n+TR+P1.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/d72366f9-e304-4612-b582-82e3e07cb6ad/Rawe+n+TR+P1.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/d72366f9-e304-4612-b582-82e3e07cb6ad/Rawe+n+TR+P1.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/ff17c285-8e00-4980-8abd-d53cf83b4dab/2024+Tino+print+v1a.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/75264c62-094f-4364-adf0-1eccc3b2f5ca/Tane.png https://www.chapterntk.com/introduction-ko-wai-au daily 0.75 2026-06-01 https://www.chapterntk.com/visual-reflections daily 0.75 2026-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/69c4eb11-c80c-4356-aa4e-999bb7ec89b1/Untitled+-+15+June+2026+22.56.36.png Visual reflections Image: my pepeha. This my reflection on positionality and relational theory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/7849cf9d-3057-4052-aebe-d263de35a447/IMG_3912.jpeg Visual reflections Image: Bobby Luke's phone showing notes for annotations. This was a conversation Bobby and I had about referencing while travelling to Turtle Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/ec83b3ac-26b9-497a-8fbf-49794cfec8b4/IMG_4056.jpeg Visual reflections Image: Dress and bag by designer Nonamey - Anishinaabe, Portland, Oregon, USA. And it speaks to Blood quantum. Blood quantum fractures genealogy, Kauanui (2008). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/dd117f9b-65fa-40e0-b2a7-577cb1c96eae/IMG_4057.jpeg Visual reflections Image: The description for the Dress and bag by designer Nonamey - Anishinaabe, Portland, Oregon, USA. which speaks to Blood quantum. Blood quantum fractures genealogy, Kauanui (2008). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/4bfed4ac-30f2-48f5-b5cf-46768b14bbe6/Indigenous+ways+of+knowledge+.jpg Visual reflections Image: shows one of the many workshops I did with Te Ranga Kura Whakairo, this was for matariki in 2008 at Orakei Marae. This is my reflection on indigenous ways of learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/288d473a-0f96-451c-bb0b-7691f9e6b1f2/IMG_5737.jpg Visual reflections Image: Me (Nichola) in my tari container at home. It speaks to my practice-led research. Here I am in the midst of my creative space working through an idea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/34026521-54a1-4737-9961-d519a2489bf9/IMG_5741.jpeg Visual reflections Image: Different Ngai Tūhoe fonts. Ko Tūhoe toku iwi... positionality & whakapapa.. important aspects of research. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/0c341e21-d140-4ca2-8ff6-55de5307a472/Untitled+-+15+June+2026+22.45.jpeg Visual reflections Image: Reirei Kingi harvesting Harakeke for our kaupapa in Orakei. This is my visual reflection on Politics of Recognition - Glen Coulthard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/b58e268b-555f-46c5-811e-a585c4738215/IMG_5740.jpeg Visual reflections Image: Drawing of Waipuna-a-rangi. Bobby Luke's challenge to the personification of atua made me reconsider this image. If Waipuna-ā-rangi is not human, how might her presence be represented instead? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/68e7df85-24e0-4497-8b2f-6a74674640d4/1_HNZFW+mind+map+copy.jpeg Visual reflections Image: Mood board for a creation I made representing Hinepūkohurangi. One of my many reflections about pūrakau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/1781618519110-4X5XNF4TJG3C5HFTV2BK/mara%2Bdesign_bk%2Bn%2Bwh.jpg Visual reflections Image: Nga Mara earring template. Kaupapa Māori theory provides a space where my whakapapa, experiences, and creative practice are not separate from the research, but fundamental to it. It is a space for me to be me... which I feel relates to when I create. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/112e8d39-e66c-4811-9c9b-98b43066467e/img_2679-2.jpg Visual reflections Image: the Nichola team in 2023. To me this image speaks to responsibility. I am responsible to more than just my objectives and research question... there are many responsibilities and accountability to research. Which I already feel as a leader within my team.. but on a different level.l https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/1f412933-20e9-48e3-850b-3553800cb106/Blog+banner+-+AHAU+c.jpg Visual reflections Image: Ahau - this is me picture of models wearing the ahau collection. This image speaks to silencing the negative voices in our head. The imposter syndrome... which I can feel when doing research. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/4f75aa49-075d-4c33-9973-8dd0ac3c9776/IMG_2614.JPG Visual reflections Image: Waimana gorge, also known as Turangi awa. "Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift" (Freire, 2005, p. 47) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/c868eae6-5437-41d4-b782-97e7fb275b23/Values+-+TallTee+BLACK+-+gold+-+HAU.png Visual reflections Image: Hautūtanga Tee Dress. Visual response and reflection of my visual language. Something I am just now starting to understand and claim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/e5cc3ca3-80b3-45f3-abf2-268a5c8cf773/IMG_8341.JPG Visual reflections Image: Model at Miromoda fashion show, Pataka, Porirua, 2017. Matariki.. as kākahu. Representing embodied knowledge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/0ce8bf83-70d9-4143-9e85-26b57c3d1ee7/Matariki+tohu_1.png Visual reflections Image: A tohu I created to represent matariki the constellation. More of my visual language. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/1781618999985-05SA9GE8RGLG6WYN1SF7/Nan.png Visual reflections Image: Hiriwa Whiri (Te Kiri) my nan outside her whare in Whakatane 1980. She is someone I would have loved to have a conversation with about this idea of hononga, because she was a deeply wairua and superstitious wahine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/1781619087747-H9XNLMRGR0B72Z5PP0MV/IMG_4195.png Visual reflections Image: Container of resin taonga I made in 2025. Creating resin taonga often feels therapeutic. As I reflected on Vaioleti's concept of vā, I wondered if this creative space (and potentially a space of vā) is where my hononga with each piece begins to form through the act of making itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/1781619435687-YUHNG6HIHPR0L7SNEO7B/IMG_6831.png Visual reflections Image: Me in deep thought during the covid lock-downs. Reflecting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c0da9a1061f03bfdc67231/ea870720-f484-43f4-a969-6d83a6b3266d/MiromodaShowcaseRunwayNewZealandFashionylt5qckX780x-8.jpg Visual reflections Image: Model wearing one of my HInepūkohurangi looks at NZFW 2018. 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