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in Amerika Samoa

Sunday in Poloa

1/19/2020

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Nick King in Poloa


Poloa and Siapo

Great Gratitude to Nick and Mona King who host me in Poloa in their lovely home.

In the living room, on a red wall, is Nick's siapo artwork  - designs made on bark cloth of the paper mulberry tree
- ancestral artwork


Nick learned from Mary Pritchard, famed siapo maker from Leone, in Amerika Samoa.

He shows me the book she wrote,  a beautiful oral history about her embodying, practicing, teaching this art.

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Nick King - bio and siapo photos


Interview with Nick King

how the art first called to him... (hint: it has to do with food :)

suddenly, a tsunami -( in 2009, just below him in Poloa)
the wave was as tall as a....

fa'a in the likeness of...

Black eyed words of a teacher - remembering Mary Pritchard

That feeling when the spirit of the art fills you, in flamenco, it's called duende,
in Samoan, it's called....(Nick describes it.)


TO REACH NICK DIRECTLY, contact him
via instagram 
@nfksiapo

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poem in poloa

by Shebana Coelho

this poem came one Sunday in Poloa
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    in Samoa

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    Shebana Coelho
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    Amerika Samoa,
    January 2020


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