Spring Maiden Series by Moira Pagan - October 2012-to date

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All the portraits of young women are inspired by photos of the girls making indigineous flora wreaths at a workshop in Whangarei Heads School Artshed last October 2011
 

Their joy and delight during the making, their pride at wearing the completed headpieces, their beautiful fresh faces at the Springtime of their lives was precious to observe and touched upon some universal ceremony of fresh flower adornment, still very much part of Life in Pacific island cultures. The gold leaf in the backgrounds of each piece represent purity, promise and spiritual completeness