m.spacapan

About me

American born to US-Canadian parents, I first immigrated to Aotearoa New Zealand when I was six years old. Our family returned to the States, where I received a BFA from Columbia, Chicago before migrating westward to California, and finally: Home, in Aotearoa.

E mihi ana ia ki ngā mana whenua. Mary believes it right to acknowledge that her place in Aotearoa is by gift— upheld by te Tiriti and sustained through the friendship of many.

Operating alongside local and national peacemakers seeking reconciliation, requires for me to carefully consider the role and responsibility of ‘witness.’

My work explores what it means to invoke memory, serve, and tend to the animated nature of the whenua, both land and body, with generational vision.

Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand