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The 60-year-old Ngāti Porou artist enjoys getting up in the morning and doing the craft that gave him a life and a way to feed his family. Next door to his rebuilt central suburban whānau home, his original earthquake-damaged kāenga (house) is storage for his materials. His whakairo (carving) workshop is 10 paces from his medically sterile moko studio.
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Riki Manuel is a renowned Maori carver and moko artist. Manuel has no need of modern distractions. He writes appointments by hand into a book, and is only contactable on a landline.
Or people know where to find him.
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On the 10th anniversary of Christchurch's deadly earthquake, how far has the city come and what challenges remain?
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When the deadly second earthquake struck Christchurch 10 years ago today, among the many things toppled by natural forces were statues of the city's founding father John Robert Godley, colonial politician William Rolleston and imperial hero Robert Falcon Scott.
Far worse things happened, of course, but this break with the past came to feel powerfully symbolic.
My 2016 book Christchurch Ruptures was in large part about the risks of our thinking being trapped in the past and attempting to put things back as they were. Might letting these statues go allow the city to leave behind the colonial attitudes and practices they represented?
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