Leleisi’uao geometrically scattered compositions zigzag from right to left, from top to bottom, and the appearance of predominantly black-white controlled chaos with distinctive touches of red are interconnected dialogues between representation and void, figure and space. The use of this illusionary pictorial space holds entities, objects and activities together in this self-referencing unity, making it possible to experience the whole exhibit different at different times. A timeless illustration in which each visual grid, each figure, each object has a redolent poetry of its own speaking about a shared genealogy, social sacrifice and transcendence.

Some beings are frozen in time, some explore everyday contingencies, some are deeply thinking, some are recreating knowledge lost in migration, some are looking up, some are looking into the void and others are mimicking each others movements and social patterns, while the bones carried by the red balloons allude to a permanence beyond death. Knowledge and the spirit of those who have left us are transferred to the next generations. Repetitive group-oriented events and erected monuments represent something larger than the beings themselves, something that immortalises their faith in alliance. The whole series, engraved in our memory as one large work, reads itself as an ever-moving procession, an organised ceremony in which beings look for meaningful connections without manifestations of power and wealth.

So the artist recognizes that our being human is invested not simply in our existence as individuals, but also in our collective existence as social beings. Our ability to rise above our individual physical selves and to see ourselves as part of a larger project, to project onto the world, and onto human life, a purpose that exists only because we as human beings create it.