Like an Octopus by its Own Ink Erased - Auckland research

An old mother losing her memory gets her back tattooed with a Māori motif.
​What seemed to have no meaning for her divided sons will reveal after her death a deeper quest for unity.
After scattering her ashes into the sea, in exchange, the brothers will catch a vulnerable creature - once mythical, tangled up in plastic: an Octopus.
As a coming-of-age odyssey, the tale embraces Māori and Celtic references enriching the journey with different layers of symbolism and perceptions
If our central story deals with a topic that is close to people’s heart and concerns- memory loss and the impact on the families involved, suspended time and abstraction introduce a raw visual poetry to the parallel realities of the drama: the loss of our World Ocean.
"Like an Octopus by its Own Ink Erased" is a TRIPTYCH.
Three independent and interdependent forms ​
They can be seen individually as:
Form 1- Choreographic performance piece
Form 2- Cinematic work
Form 3- Inter-arts deployment
When viewed together they comprise one creation,
multi-layered and intertwined.