Résumé du livre
"Peter Adsett has taken one of the most arresting events in Tairawhiti history and declined to talk about it. Instead, through his decades-long experimentation with abstraction, the Melbourne-based artist invites the viewer to "seek out the edges", to try to make their own sense out of the 1868 Matawhero 'Massacre'. The Matawhero 'Massacre' refers to the 1868 incident when Maori prophet Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki and his followers killed around 60 people -- roughly equal numbers of Maori and Pakeha. The attack was said to be vengeance (utu) for Te Kooti's treatment after his capture at Waerenga-a-hika three years earlier"--Eventfinder.