By American artist Amanda Valdes @amandavaldes at 5 Hannah Street, Whangārei 0110, New Zealand in February 2019 for Street Prints Manaia, International Art Festival @street_prints which had the theme “Weaving the Thread of Humanity.” Photos taken February 2025. Thanks to @streetartcities app for leading me to Whangārei.
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"Inspired by Māori mythology and Tāwhirimātea: the god of weather, thunder and lightning, wind, clouds and storms." @amandavaldes Feb. 10, 2019⠀⠀⠀
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Artist website: http://amandavaldes.com and https://www.facebook.com/AValdesArt
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#aerosol #americanartist #Aotearoa #fewandfarwomen #globalstreetart #graffiti #graffitiart #graffitimural #insearchofstreetart #jj_urbanart #manaia #mural #muralart #newzealand #portrait #publicart #sprayart #streetart #streetart_daily #streetartist #streetartnz #streetartphotography #streetartworldwide #streetprints #streetprintsmanaia #urbanart #wallart #whangarei #womenwhopaint

Manaia by Brazilian artist Mateus Bailon @mateusbailon at Butter Factory Lane, Whangārei 0110, New Zealand in February 2019 for Street Prints Manaia, International Art Festival @street_prints which had the theme “Weaving the Thread of Humanity.” Photos taken February 2025. Thanks to @streetartcities app for leading me to Whangārei.
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"Our culture is what keep us connected not only with the ones around us but also with our ancestors and ours descendants to come. And with this in mind it made sense to me to respectfully create my version of a strong Māori symbol directly related to ancestry and heritage. The Manaia.
Te Manaia is regarded as a kind deity that protects people and helps them communicate with their ancestors. It's regarded as a mythical being with a bird's head (sky), a body of a man or snake (earth) and the tail of a fish (sea), symbolizing the balance between the realms.
I depicted the Manaia in side profile as it's usually depicted in traditional carving and jewelry symbolizing its role as messenger between the earthly world of mortals and the domains of the spirits, and between ancestors and descendants." @mateusbailon Feb 20, 2019
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Artist website: https://mateusbailon.art
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🔔#Earthquake M3.0 strikes 80 km SW of #Manaia (New Zealand) 4 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1635071

Manaia road lookout, Coromandel

Testing a new editing workflow in LRC. I'm not too happy with the result. There is still a lot of things to improve.

#manaia #coromandel #peninsula #newzealand #silverweddinganniversary

so we got our awesome #OceanGlider that could back - #Manaia - it was a nervous juggle getting it to surface away from an advancing field of #SeaIce - all while we were stuck with weather - as it was after a 50 km journey it ended up just being 100 m the right side of a messy band of ice. It would have been quite the pain if it had come up in that chilly soup. #climate #Oceanography #robots

#Earthquake M3.8 strikes 46 km S of #Manaia (New Zealand) 5 min ago. More info: https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=1203128

A nice quiet spot for lunch. #Manaia #NewZealand #NZ