https://anaiti.art Ana Iti art Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:03:55 +0000 https://anaiti.art en https://anaiti.art/Home Fri, 22 Oct 2021 03:27:36 +0000 Ana Iti art https://anaiti.art/Home ANA ITI https://anaiti.art/Ngahere-behind-a-pile-of-metal-2026 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:03:55 +0000 Ana Iti art https://anaiti.art/Ngahere-behind-a-pile-of-metal-2026 <img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4308ebe79b80105036b85d395c8e266127a4197556e7b0c5e9afc77cb11d9199/image-1-Ngahere-behind-a-pile-of-metal_Ana-Iti_2026.jpg" data-mid="247557988" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4308ebe79b80105036b85d395c8e266127a4197556e7b0c5e9afc77cb11d9199/image-1-Ngahere-behind-a-pile-of-metal_Ana-Iti_2026.jpg" /> NGAHERE BEHIND A PILE OF METAL Commissioned by Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, curated by Melanie Oliver While there are no trees in Ngahere behind a pile of metal, this installation by Ana Iti (Te Rarawa, Ngāi Tūpoto, Ngāti Here, Pākehā) references the tools and infrastructure of kauri logging, an industry that flourished in Te Tai Tokerau during the nineteenth century. The title alludes to a conversation the artist had with her uncle, who gave her directions to find kauri on her hapū land. The drawing that stretches across the walls in this space was created using charcoal from burnt kauri timber, the large saw teeth cutting into the substructure of the gallery. The chain and metal pipe sculpture is a sort of drawing too, riffing on the form of a marine crane, or the way that logs are bound together for transport in waterways. The relationship of rākau to wai is important here, reflecting the kinship of kauri to tohorā, the Southern right whale. Both now face the threat of extinction – their plight a sign of broader ecological devastation and species annihilation. Iti suggests that a meaningful response to climate change adaptation must address the pile of metal, the structures and legacies of resource extraction. Can we shift our mindset to one of sustainable balance with the environment? - Melanie Oliver A piece of writing&nbsp;Ōmutu by Nadine Hura was commisioned in reponse to this exhibition. Chain, steel, kauri charcoal, charcoal powder Photo: John Collie <img width="1200" height="853" width_o="1200" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3effb4003c7a65bc8450013447cca7c5ff1e821e715f647b23cd184db2d9a99/image-2-Ngahere-behind-a-pile-of-metal_Ana-Iti_2026.jpg" data-mid="247557989" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3effb4003c7a65bc8450013447cca7c5ff1e821e715f647b23cd184db2d9a99/image-2-Ngahere-behind-a-pile-of-metal_Ana-Iti_2026.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="853" width_o="1200" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3effb4003c7a65bc8450013447cca7c5ff1e821e715f647b23cd184db2d9a99/image-2-Ngahere-behind-a-pile-of-metal_Ana-Iti_2026.jpg" data-mid="247557989" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3effb4003c7a65bc8450013447cca7c5ff1e821e715f647b23cd184db2d9a99/image-2-Ngahere-behind-a-pile-of-metal_Ana-Iti_2026.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="1200" width_o="900" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aca6821187e19db48faf812ffd206dadf6d5d1323aee61f32e76a5901f6d53a3/image-7-Ngahere-behind-a-pile-of-metal_Ana-Iti_2026.jpg" data-mid="247557994" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/aca6821187e19db48faf812ffd206dadf6d5d1323aee61f32e76a5901f6d53a3/image-7-Ngahere-behind-a-pile-of-metal_Ana-Iti_2026.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4c74f5ceb99780ff8cf6a48801de2494cc139d0ee171fce3ffc8d0fa4c93d96/image-5-Ngahere-behind-a-pile-of-metal_Ana-Iti_2026.jpg" data-mid="247557992" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4c74f5ceb99780ff8cf6a48801de2494cc139d0ee171fce3ffc8d0fa4c93d96/image-5-Ngahere-behind-a-pile-of-metal_Ana-Iti_2026.jpg" /> <img width="8114" height="6153" width_o="8114" height_o="6153" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9130701bcfa5e1e062280f8432756df51d8205f26e578b951718ed537542deba/image-3-Ngahere-behind-a-pile-of-metal_Ana-Iti_2026.jpg" data-mid="247557990" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9130701bcfa5e1e062280f8432756df51d8205f26e578b951718ed537542deba/image-3-Ngahere-behind-a-pile-of-metal_Ana-Iti_2026.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b720e566c749cb5bcad8f01bdc13a6c39baed0ccc6c5898ff50f47b074dbde1/image-6-Ngahere-behind-a-pile-of-metal_Ana-Iti_2026jpg.jpg" data-mid="247557993" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b720e566c749cb5bcad8f01bdc13a6c39baed0ccc6c5898ff50f47b074dbde1/image-6-Ngahere-behind-a-pile-of-metal_Ana-Iti_2026jpg.jpg" /> https://anaiti.art/A-dry-and-windswept-body-2025 Thu, 29 May 2025 03:42:21 +0000 Ana Iti art https://anaiti.art/A-dry-and-windswept-body-2025 <img width="1600" height="900" width_o="1600" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a687e167beb968153c97d661facb3b9c5f0fc28b0486c738897299db4c769e63/Hero_Ana-Iti_A-dry-and-windswept-body_2025.png" data-mid="242526540" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a687e167beb968153c97d661facb3b9c5f0fc28b0486c738897299db4c769e63/Hero_Ana-Iti_A-dry-and-windswept-body_2025.png" /> A DRY AND WINDSWEPT BODY Exhibited in He wāhi pāoro, Stepdown, Heretaunga Hastings He wāhi pāoro brings together two video works by Ana Iti,&nbsp;I am a salt lake (2024) and&nbsp;A dry and windswept body (2025). Both take the salt lake at Kāpara-Te-Hau (Lake Grassmere) in Marlborough as a starting point to think about how we might relate and learn from the processes and cycles harnessed in the production of salt. A dry and windswept body departs from I am a salt lake, returning to Kāpara-Te-Hau during the salt harvest. The video is composed from drone footage that moves above the lake, revealing its contours alongside the industrial processes operating on the site. As the drone scans the landscape, an accompanying audio track experiments with the textures and rhythms of breath, drawing a connection between the ruffled surface of the water and a soundscape structured by breathing. single-channel HD video, colour, sound&nbsp; duration: 5 min 5 sec <img width="1600" height="900" width_o="1600" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5567e5d9b8794f2b33a3db9d22b0edbc5480dc2211b4c8961e8e56330e5ba93a/4_Ana-Iti_A-dry-and-windswept-body_2025.png" data-mid="242526538" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5567e5d9b8794f2b33a3db9d22b0edbc5480dc2211b4c8961e8e56330e5ba93a/4_Ana-Iti_A-dry-and-windswept-body_2025.png" /> <img width="1600" height="900" width_o="1600" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aed4439f740eb74b310c45bdb2ea00d98e6e3d333019e9bfca70edcefcd53b7e/5_Ana-Iti_A-dry-and-windswept-body_2025.png" data-mid="242526539" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aed4439f740eb74b310c45bdb2ea00d98e6e3d333019e9bfca70edcefcd53b7e/5_Ana-Iti_A-dry-and-windswept-body_2025.png" /> <img width="1600" height="900" width_o="1600" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d90a8cb12ffaeaa08b0c7a77c2a878a52e22e6cbef8c4d0264ab4ab3dd5aa947/8_Ana-Iti_A-dry-and-windswept-body_2025.png" data-mid="242526536" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d90a8cb12ffaeaa08b0c7a77c2a878a52e22e6cbef8c4d0264ab4ab3dd5aa947/8_Ana-Iti_A-dry-and-windswept-body_2025.png" /> <img width="1600" height="900" width_o="1600" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dde1f8fe2971ebdffcd05367eb3deb548c09ae2f9d7de5e0be7e46ba46f4284f/2_Ana-Iti_A-dry-and-windswept-body_2025.png" data-mid="242526533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dde1f8fe2971ebdffcd05367eb3deb548c09ae2f9d7de5e0be7e46ba46f4284f/2_Ana-Iti_A-dry-and-windswept-body_2025.png" /> <img width="1600" height="900" width_o="1600" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c41666fbd23f9f6fa842b0c44b650b04a414ff858b3b43278c97a20784026899/7_Ana-Iti_A-dry-and-windswept-body_2025.png" data-mid="242526535" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c41666fbd23f9f6fa842b0c44b650b04a414ff858b3b43278c97a20784026899/7_Ana-Iti_A-dry-and-windswept-body_2025.png" /> <img width="1600" height="900" width_o="1600" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fb01727cb8135b5b90cdb8ae0e21ea33232c9abdb7d03a2d5576435838d6fe8/1_Ana-Iti_A-dry-and-windswept-body_2025.png" data-mid="242526532" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fb01727cb8135b5b90cdb8ae0e21ea33232c9abdb7d03a2d5576435838d6fe8/1_Ana-Iti_A-dry-and-windswept-body_2025.png" /> <img width="1600" height="900" width_o="1600" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15caf35b86b83894ac2c13d5b1818ee4be389d9893cd3b395e2179fa1ce96aea/6_Ana-Iti_A-dry-and-windswept-body_2025.png" data-mid="242526534" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15caf35b86b83894ac2c13d5b1818ee4be389d9893cd3b395e2179fa1ce96aea/6_Ana-Iti_A-dry-and-windswept-body_2025.png" /> https://anaiti.art/A-hybrid-made-of-both-in-the-Sharjah-Biennale-2025 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 03:59:37 +0000 Ana Iti art https://anaiti.art/A-hybrid-made-of-both-in-the-Sharjah-Biennale-2025 <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d94cdf2284fc8349b0730f5d6406ecf7cf7603a9a897ac0792e31a0a85bf9caf/ANA_ITI_DHAID_WEB_022_6387-copy.jpg" data-mid="230539778" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d94cdf2284fc8349b0730f5d6406ecf7cf7603a9a897ac0792e31a0a85bf9caf/ANA_ITI_DHAID_WEB_022_6387-copy.jpg" /> A hybrid made of both, 2025 Exhibited in Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry, The Clinic,&nbsp;Al Dhaid, Sharjah, curated by Megan Tamati-Quennell and Zeynep Öz A hybrid made of both is a multi-component installation by Ana Iti (Te Rarawa) that considers language and its dissemination. Four boxes of cast sand have been pressed with special letterforms, used in the historic Māori language newspaper Te Pīpīwharauroa He Kupu Whakamarama in the early twentieth century. While the Māori alphabet is made up of 15 letters from the Roman alphabet, these special characters were intended to convey phonetic sounds from the spoken Māori language in text. The letterforms&nbsp; “are symbolic of the idea that Te Reo Māori could not be perfectly slotted into something already existing,” says Iti. A text written by Iti, painted on the wall in locally sourced clay, continues to explore the possibilities and limits of language and communication. Both artworks negotiate Iti’s own relationship to the Māori language, which she is learning as an adult, and each represent “ways to be close with my language outside of my ability at that time to learn it and speak it.” Iti describes A dusty handrail on the track (2021) as “a blackout poem made from found phrases”. Each frame of the 11-minute-long video is the scanned page of a book with most of the text blanked out, so that only a single highlighted word and the sentence it belongs to are visible. The scans are taken from three books by female Māori authors: Keri Hulme’s Te Kaihou The Windeater (1986), J. C. Sturm’s House of the Talking Cat (1983) and June Mitchell’s Amokura (1978). These books, all early examples of fiction by Māori women to be published in English, and their authors have been important influences on Iti. “They are all exquisite practitioners in their form”, she says, “and though the words are in English their thoughts and the spirit of their work are Māori.” Iti has searched the three books for specific words: ‘looking,’ ‘path,’ ‘search,’ ‘track,’ ‘trying,’ ‘waiting,’ ‘undo,’ ‘progress’.“These words and the sentences built around them, combine to express a feeling of looking for something, an attempt to find the path that has been laid ahead.” - Hanahiva Rose Like everywhere, words come on foot after another clay, text, sand, bentonite clay A dusty handrail on the track single-channel HD video, colour, sound duration: 10 min 56 sec Images courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation. 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LIKE THE MĀNAWA, 2025 Exhibited in Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry, Kalba Ice Factory, Sharjah, curated by Megan Tamati-Quennell&nbsp; Ana Iti’s (Te Rarawa) A resilient heart like the mānawa (2024) is an immersive sculptural and sonic installation that evocatively re-interprets a wharf in Rāwene, at the top of Aotearoa New Zealand’s North Island. Planks of native kauri timber balance atop large steel frames that simplify and abstract the cast-concrete piles of the wharf, while audio recordings made around Rāwene play within the installation space. “I was first interested in the wharf as a conceptual starting point; at its most simple, a structure to arrive at and leave from,” says Iti.&nbsp; Rāwene and the surrounding Hokianga Harbour are sites of ancestral connection for Iti through her iwi (tribe), Te Rarawa. A resilient heart like the mānawa explores this relationship and “the complexities of leaving somewhere and hoping to return”. “Mānawa” is the native mangrove which grows around Rāwene, while “manawa” is the Māori word for “heart.” The entangled and dynamic negotiation between the natural world and an industrialised landscape is revealed by the mānawa: a resilient species that protects the changing shoreline. - Hanahiva RoseKauri timber, steel, rust, audio field recordings&nbsp; Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation. Photography by Shafeek Nalakath Kareem &nbsp; <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/724652690c617db3f2d4fada982f21c244dbc8baa9c869967d00b8b93662cb81/Ana-Iti_A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa_Sharjah_10.jpg" data-mid="233871560" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/724652690c617db3f2d4fada982f21c244dbc8baa9c869967d00b8b93662cb81/Ana-Iti_A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa_Sharjah_10.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48ff99f6ff4e3feb0dae2dab487687a7f30bf1ddb56d334b2a432a7a7c2611d5/Ana-Iti_A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa_Sharjah_9.jpg" data-mid="233871559" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48ff99f6ff4e3feb0dae2dab487687a7f30bf1ddb56d334b2a432a7a7c2611d5/Ana-Iti_A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa_Sharjah_9.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a14a5ba6218504efd049d83fbc2b4dc2521074ad2db0ab986ece811a0808340c/Ana-Iti_A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa_Sharjah_2.jpg" data-mid="233871554" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a14a5ba6218504efd049d83fbc2b4dc2521074ad2db0ab986ece811a0808340c/Ana-Iti_A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa_Sharjah_2.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5054abf1b9e14b803a78210ad23d4298917a33745b641bfd13d392213f71b634/Ana-Iti_A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa_Sharjah_3.jpg" data-mid="233871555" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5054abf1b9e14b803a78210ad23d4298917a33745b641bfd13d392213f71b634/Ana-Iti_A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa_Sharjah_3.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e684d7782359b3425fd56e0bc81cff97d4bd3819cd16635ceb40ada13f55f69c/Ana-Iti_A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa_Sharjah_8.jpg" data-mid="233871561" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e684d7782359b3425fd56e0bc81cff97d4bd3819cd16635ceb40ada13f55f69c/Ana-Iti_A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa_Sharjah_8.jpg" /> <img width="800" height="1200" width_o="800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6cf561ee79b6d6521a5f9b3026ea73e192435e5a3cbcfb32fe6bb11100d59171/Ana-Iti_A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa_Sharjah_4.jpg" data-mid="233871556" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/6cf561ee79b6d6521a5f9b3026ea73e192435e5a3cbcfb32fe6bb11100d59171/Ana-Iti_A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa_Sharjah_4.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/686c5318fb0697e054555a6dfaff998afc9f84a58ef0a09ef47a6f55dc4d86d1/Ana-Iti_A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa_Sharjah_1.jpg" data-mid="233871553" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/686c5318fb0697e054555a6dfaff998afc9f84a58ef0a09ef47a6f55dc4d86d1/Ana-Iti_A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa_Sharjah_1.jpg" /> <img width="800" height="1200" width_o="800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e4d27c5ede873bc10a01ef6d4ca833b4fed066fafb24837e98c28422358ea1e/Ana-Iti_A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa_Sharjah_5.jpg" data-mid="233871557" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/4e4d27c5ede873bc10a01ef6d4ca833b4fed066fafb24837e98c28422358ea1e/Ana-Iti_A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa_Sharjah_5.jpg" /> https://anaiti.art/Howling-out-at-a-distance-in-Image-Ecologies-2025 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 03:59:32 +0000 Ana Iti art https://anaiti.art/Howling-out-at-a-distance-in-Image-Ecologies-2025 <img width="1500" height="1084" width_o="1500" height_o="1084" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1811583090247b7c6155d90bfe58198b095c6af3f8b8c2e2a10e81337e6152d5/25-2_MUMA_Image_48.jpg" data-mid="233871610" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1811583090247b7c6155d90bfe58198b095c6af3f8b8c2e2a10e81337e6152d5/25-2_MUMA_Image_48.jpg" /> HOWLING OUT AT A DISTANCE, 2025 Comissioned by Circuit artist moving image,&nbsp; exhibited in&nbsp;Image Economies, Monash University Museum of Art, Naarm Melbourne, curated by Melanie Oliver (group) Single-channel HD video, colour, sound duration: 11 min 42 sec <img width="1500" height="730" width_o="1500" height_o="730" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a063741ec0cfb8eeb02d3a95ce1561bcc7c2aa17ff453f90f259fac002e5936/25-2_MUMA_Image_47.jpg" data-mid="233871609" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a063741ec0cfb8eeb02d3a95ce1561bcc7c2aa17ff453f90f259fac002e5936/25-2_MUMA_Image_47.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="806" width_o="1500" height_o="806" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1fd80cb63feee69b29279f73630eecce1d6f13b82141799ba5581d9784a2f66/25-2_MUMA_Image_46.jpg" data-mid="233871608" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1fd80cb63feee69b29279f73630eecce1d6f13b82141799ba5581d9784a2f66/25-2_MUMA_Image_46.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="859" width_o="1200" height_o="859" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d7276937644c40ea42f49e3940d771676396f34a45e22c56626dd8ebe579a29/25-2_MUMA_Image_41.jpg" data-mid="233871606" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d7276937644c40ea42f49e3940d771676396f34a45e22c56626dd8ebe579a29/25-2_MUMA_Image_41.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="811" width_o="1500" height_o="811" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82db36bc8367bdd816337ed433d9269018e8c593bd774018e00733779bb7f616/25-2_MUMA_Image_45.jpg" data-mid="233871607" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82db36bc8367bdd816337ed433d9269018e8c593bd774018e00733779bb7f616/25-2_MUMA_Image_45.jpg" /> https://anaiti.art/What-is-that-salty-voice-2024 Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:18:14 +0000 Ana Iti art https://anaiti.art/What-is-that-salty-voice-2024 <img width="6000" height="4630" width_o="6000" height_o="4630" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2607055f4f0f3315c7fdcaf9733679ac0349aee32237018b8a1648296018b0d8/ANA_ITI_215.jpg" data-mid="221669877" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2607055f4f0f3315c7fdcaf9733679ac0349aee32237018b8a1648296018b0d8/ANA_ITI_215.jpg" /> WHAT IS THAT SALTY VOICE? Published by The Physics Room, 2024 Editor: Abby Cunnane Project coordinator: Orissa Keane Designer: Eva Charlton Printer: Crucial Colour ISBN 978-0-473-71154-2 What is that salty voice? is a publication developed in response to Ana Iti’s 2023 solo exhibition, I am a salt lake, at The Physics Room. The 2023 project focused on Kapara Te Hau, the salt lakes near Te Waiharakeke (Blenheim) in Te Waipounamu, a first-person narrative meditation on a body of water, minerals, and the relationship between one’s internal voice and the physical landscape. What is that salty voice? features written contributions from Colleen Maria Lenihan, essa may ranapiri and Abby Cunnane. Lenihan writes as the artist’s whanaunga and in connection with their shared Te Rarawa tupuna, Kupe; ranapiri writes about salt, saltiness, colonisation and the body; Cunnane writes about the physicality of grief and the salt lakes’ algae in their red state. A series of still images by Iti, the beginning of a second chapter of work at Kapara Te Hau, completes this soft-colour publication, beautifully designed by Eva Charlton with working drawings by Iti throughout.&nbsp; Available for purchase here photography by Stephen Wells <img width="6000" height="4500" width_o="6000" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/123d5b7d861f494ac5f611f92f930ccc3a5b3e5cf581e99964aa30305da7e1e5/ANA_ITI_230.jpg" data-mid="221671107" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/123d5b7d861f494ac5f611f92f930ccc3a5b3e5cf581e99964aa30305da7e1e5/ANA_ITI_230.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="5171" width_o="6000" height_o="5171" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46b79b419bb08fb6d5ec3165ff5bae4497c22a4d1617509d2c91cac4a3bee869/ANA_ITI_315.jpg" data-mid="221670512" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46b79b419bb08fb6d5ec3165ff5bae4497c22a4d1617509d2c91cac4a3bee869/ANA_ITI_315.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4631" width_o="6000" height_o="4631" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cdc481649306fbd55a090b014344809edd442f03efe1e57257f1b682c90265d5/ANA_ITI_28.jpg" data-mid="221671145" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cdc481649306fbd55a090b014344809edd442f03efe1e57257f1b682c90265d5/ANA_ITI_28.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4631" width_o="6000" height_o="4631" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c56243fa58adb040e3cdbf766bf23d60a79dcbd6c54bccbd67b270a29d5d3f1/ANA_ITI_73.jpg" data-mid="221671154" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c56243fa58adb040e3cdbf766bf23d60a79dcbd6c54bccbd67b270a29d5d3f1/ANA_ITI_73.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4631" width_o="6000" height_o="4631" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2c3edb3bc173ad6d2e115cb101e04d5e25f2fc8037540be4aa646a330ea5192/ANA_ITI_56.jpg" data-mid="221671151" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2c3edb3bc173ad6d2e115cb101e04d5e25f2fc8037540be4aa646a330ea5192/ANA_ITI_56.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4631" width_o="6000" height_o="4631" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/646a6b31d43ec6558e2856ec29c8d6e40f482b8e7fd7a0402563e893b681cd10/ANA_ITI_59.jpg" data-mid="221671150" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/646a6b31d43ec6558e2856ec29c8d6e40f482b8e7fd7a0402563e893b681cd10/ANA_ITI_59.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4631" width_o="6000" height_o="4631" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ecf2264096f4449e0f94957ac9dc7796b75a27f1b74acaca1899a9b4be3275d/ANA_ITI_34.jpg" data-mid="221671152" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2ecf2264096f4449e0f94957ac9dc7796b75a27f1b74acaca1899a9b4be3275d/ANA_ITI_34.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4631" width_o="6000" height_o="4631" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77563d0ec7af5a9fe5b234be35ebbe0fa771c783ad69215283235690d6f56590/ANA_ITI_69.jpg" data-mid="221671148" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77563d0ec7af5a9fe5b234be35ebbe0fa771c783ad69215283235690d6f56590/ANA_ITI_69.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4631" width_o="6000" height_o="4631" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41d25f660b1242ad88210aa6f774495f4ce6808f3ae878bf9c632c1b922641b6/ANA_ITI_66.jpg" data-mid="221671149" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41d25f660b1242ad88210aa6f774495f4ce6808f3ae878bf9c632c1b922641b6/ANA_ITI_66.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4631" width_o="6000" height_o="4631" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ea35fe11e7cd62fb481337fafa70f9c884c8b91328705f01bcf5cf4ce0a3ed2/ANA_ITI_71.jpg" data-mid="221671146" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ea35fe11e7cd62fb481337fafa70f9c884c8b91328705f01bcf5cf4ce0a3ed2/ANA_ITI_71.jpg" /> https://anaiti.art/A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa-2024 Tue, 06 Aug 2024 02:53:56 +0000 Ana Iti art https://anaiti.art/A-resilient-heart-like-the-manawa-2024 <img width="1500" height="2000" width_o="1500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b4873fe61535495ee3c434f42a8fb1e0bcd86825633a0732136ac4733926a43/_DSF4598web.jpg" data-mid="215906386" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b4873fe61535495ee3c434f42a8fb1e0bcd86825633a0732136ac4733926a43/_DSF4598web.jpg" /> A RESILIENT HEART LIKE THE MĀNAWA Commissioned and exhibited at the Walters Prize 2024, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, curated by Natasha Conland and Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua A resilient heart like the manawa, 2024,&nbsp; reimagines the structure of the Rāwene Wharf as a skeletal version of itself, replacing concrete piles for steel and reducing its deck boardwalk to a delicate network of kauri timber beams. The original wharf was built in 1881 as a means of servicing the booming timber industry that Rāwene and much of Hokianga had become renowned for, increasing settler appetites for the area’s natural resources and accelerating the degradation of its waterways and forests. The wharf lies in the waters of the Hokianga Harbour, looking out to Motukaraka Point where Iti’s marae, Ngāi Tūpoto, is situated. Iti has collected field recordings from Rawene, distilling the rhythms of the sea, mānawa (native mangroves), and the arrival and departure of the passenger ferry.&nbsp; In this installation Iti extends her method of referencing found elements within the built and natural environment to explore their potential as material, and as metaphoric traces of colonialism, industrialisation and more broadly, the complex relationships between people, whenua (land) and the natural world. In The woman whose back was a whetstone, 2021, one of the works for which Iti won a nomination for the Walters Prize, she invoked Hinetuahōanga, the atua wahine (Māori deity) of grindstone, as a foundational ancestor for the practice of sculpture. Poetically expanding on this, Iti now thinks of her work as responding to ‘ko te pā o te hōanga’, or the touch of the grindstone, the shifting points of contact where cultures and environments meet and generate new meaning. - Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua Kauri timber, steel, rust, audio field recordings Photography by Sam Hartnett <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4327a88575abaa83c5ddb00be03ec17b9f6bef63e36c4f5d21a15257cb590d46/_DSF4610web.jpg" data-mid="215906389" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4327a88575abaa83c5ddb00be03ec17b9f6bef63e36c4f5d21a15257cb590d46/_DSF4610web.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="2000" width_o="1500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc1b81a7197b000137a6963897c13ec603875ebe3b077338c4ec32153d93daae/_DSF4624web.jpg" data-mid="215906392" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc1b81a7197b000137a6963897c13ec603875ebe3b077338c4ec32153d93daae/_DSF4624web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa469c4103313f11a3af403d23656bfede5618a094a4d0f4f4cf680631c1c239/_DSF4606web.jpg" data-mid="215906388" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa469c4103313f11a3af403d23656bfede5618a094a4d0f4f4cf680631c1c239/_DSF4606web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f13d0ad991a9f98be60143529ea79ca6262308401fe4c40ef238fad96131e09/_DSF4594web.jpg" data-mid="215906385" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f13d0ad991a9f98be60143529ea79ca6262308401fe4c40ef238fad96131e09/_DSF4594web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69d4874a016de2466513c6e9de6dc0808d315b91697d5c8dd633bcab03956f71/_DSF4599web.jpg" data-mid="215906387" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69d4874a016de2466513c6e9de6dc0808d315b91697d5c8dd633bcab03956f71/_DSF4599web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98d32d007cedf4658feae8f97da53df726ee4bb77e09cc05811fce7f5111c0d9/_DSF4617web.jpg" data-mid="215906390" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/98d32d007cedf4658feae8f97da53df726ee4bb77e09cc05811fce7f5111c0d9/_DSF4617web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8bbf1cfdd1c8a2119b4770994f0e99cf52a1046d76f70825aa4454fa35921c3/_DSF4580web.jpg" data-mid="215906384" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8bbf1cfdd1c8a2119b4770994f0e99cf52a1046d76f70825aa4454fa35921c3/_DSF4580web.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="2000" width_o="1500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92274a2322f8dbec4bdd9751129040c421bf80433a2ee9a5aa6a9843cb7943f0/_DSF4621web.jpg" data-mid="215906391" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92274a2322f8dbec4bdd9751129040c421bf80433a2ee9a5aa6a9843cb7943f0/_DSF4621web.jpg" /> https://anaiti.art/I-am-a-salt-lake-2023-1 Mon, 27 Nov 2023 02:23:30 +0000 Ana Iti art https://anaiti.art/I-am-a-salt-lake-2023-1 <img width="1200" height="675" width_o="1200" height_o="675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e6af999ef1d3b7bc0970cf3efb8ca648ee09eeed005184a3cee80a2d8b46d50/Image-7_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" data-mid="198308516" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e6af999ef1d3b7bc0970cf3efb8ca648ee09eeed005184a3cee80a2d8b46d50/Image-7_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" /> I AM A SALT LAKE Exhibited in&nbsp;I am a salt lake atThe Physics Room, Ōtautahi Christchurch, curated by Abby Cunnane Ana Iti’s film brings together footage from Kāpara-Te-Hau (the salt lakes in Te Tau Ihu), abstracted diagrams drawn on glass, and a first person text. These three elements recur, something like the pattern-based process of learning where you repeat a sentence or bar of music until it is embodied, becomes part of you. I am a salt lake also registers the difficulty of finding language sufficient to articulate the relationship with the different whenua, seas, lakes, winds, houses, that the artist passes through. The work is grounded in Kāpara-Te-Hau, a specific geographical site and system: the climate, conditions, and industrial processes that produce salt. Kāpara-Te-Hau is near where the artist grew up in Te Waiharakeke Blenheim. Returning over the past year for this research, Iti parked the car at the end of the road nearest the sea, moving slowly inland toward the lake, with frequent stops to film and record audio. The physical environment there is harsh. It is a wide shallow basin with no tributaries, limited rainfall, and hot dry winds, all of which make it ideal for salt production. In this process seawater is pumped from the ocean and gradually transferred through a number of gated ponds until it becomes so concentrated and salty that it crystallises, and can be harvested and processed. Salt production has been operating in the region since 1952, and currently accounts for about half of all the salt used in Aotearoa. The name Kāpara-Te-Hau holds older stories. Rangitāne kōrero in the area records a conflict between their tupuna, Te Hau, who came on Ārai-te-uru waka, and Kupe. Their battle left a physical impression in the landscape, and Te Hau’s kūmara gardens were inundated by a lake. Other pūrākau record the Kāhui Tipua, giants who lived in Wairau Marlborough and were also devastated by Kupe swamping their villages. Later, Te Rauparaha was temporarily captured here by Tuhawaiki, escaping to a longboat offshore by hiding in the kelp beds. During WWII the land was claimed by the government to be used for pilot training, and an airfield and bombing range were established. In 1943 the Christchurch businessman George Skellerup (who required a local source of salt for rubber recycling) received a licence to manufacture salt, and construction of the ponds started. Iti’s work doesn’t set out to explicitly tell any of these stories. However, it suggests that processes of sedimentation, documentation, or remembering, are both ecological and social. Accordingly, histories may be understood as residual within the landscape, leaving their own layers of sediment. I am a salt lake recognises the salt—and by extension other wai, or waters that carry it—as one such layer or record. In the work Iti draws lines on a glass windowpane, which is semi-opaque with condensation. Watching these lines being slowly drawn can also feel like watching someone think, or like watching ribs as they rise, pause, and fall with breath. This part is filmed in Heretaunga Hastings, where the artist has recently relocated—another line of movement subtly documented in the work. It’s hard to make out the figure of the artist behind the glass, yet perhaps only too easy for many people who’ve lived in old wooden houses in Aotearoa to imagine the slightly damp interior air in the morning, the way that water sits on the inside of the windows when you wake. The abstract diagram Iti draws alludes to the movements of wind and water, the settling of salt and alluvial sediment in layers, the evaporation process as the sun’s heat hits the water, increasing the mineral saturation. The window functions as a membrane or skin between viewer and the subject, as well as a physical barrier between the weather outside and the sheltered space inside. As a parallel idea, the projection screen in the gallery is both a wall which separates us from the interiority or ‘world’ of the work, and an opening into it. One reading of the work suggests that this tension—possible intimacy, and insurmountable distance— is a condition inherent in human relationships. The result is a sense of melancholy, immense solitude, or of deep thought that evokes homesickness. Iti mentions imagining Te Hau, whose whanaunga continued down Te Waipounamu while he stayed in Te Tau Ihu, looking at the cold horizon and thinking about the distance that stretched between them. Lines of black text on a white ground appear intermittently throughout the work, intimate as a voice. I am trying to connect across two islands and a strait, the first says. As a whole the work reiterates this desire to span distance, both spatial and temporal. It may refer to a time when the ocean itself was home, spreading myself between the land and the sea, or, simply to an artist making decisions about what to do next: lifting and holding others’ things above me. Difficulty is implicit in the artist’s text, the difficulty of making sense of a place that both calls to, and troubles you. How to connect with a landscape that can appear hostile to human inhabitants, exhausted by processes of mineral extraction, as well as to connect to home, and to oneself? I am trying to fill myself up all the way, it says. Visiting the site for filming, Iti experienced the ruthless glare of the light-on-salt, the dry winds, ending the days with sore and tired eyes. The salt itself—necessary to the human body’s nerve impulses, for muscle contraction and relaxation (including for the heart and blood vessels), fluid balance—is a second ‘voice’ within the work. It has a vitality of its own, as well as inherent life-giving properties. Initially dislocated from the sea, and then from its soluble state in water, the salt becomes a material thing, or a visible body, an ‘I’ rather than part of a moving interconnected whole. Perhaps it is the salt itself which asks the series of questions punctuating the work: how will I go there? how will I go? how to stay safe? These questions aren’t resolved at the end of the work. Rather, there is a sense that they will incrementally shift over time, dissolve with seawater, dry, and crystallise again. - Abby Cunnane Single-channel HD video, colour, sound&nbsp; duration: 12 min 35 sec <img width="1200" height="675" width_o="1200" height_o="675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16943cb269281ee0fa2417db0a1c58103fd87fe67f0e1573fdac495468856d45/Image-6_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" data-mid="198308515" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16943cb269281ee0fa2417db0a1c58103fd87fe67f0e1573fdac495468856d45/Image-6_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="675" width_o="1200" height_o="675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a697c7312976ba117af246e7a4a7c57ddcae4efaa352ae8625a3cef0f8d3843/Image-5_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" data-mid="198308523" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a697c7312976ba117af246e7a4a7c57ddcae4efaa352ae8625a3cef0f8d3843/Image-5_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="675" width_o="1200" height_o="675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e3e4e79da0bf97bc4dbd3fc5b240173a85d8e9e67f59e0278c8bc0a78921189/Image-4_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" data-mid="198308522" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e3e4e79da0bf97bc4dbd3fc5b240173a85d8e9e67f59e0278c8bc0a78921189/Image-4_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="675" width_o="1200" height_o="675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eaa1572e4958c12bc270b79e67d778b5475d92d347cc7a1b1bd7b3392d406784/Image-10_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" data-mid="198308518" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eaa1572e4958c12bc270b79e67d778b5475d92d347cc7a1b1bd7b3392d406784/Image-10_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa6e554363b371d4dcf09cb4e3ce2c3d7842b2b87cce225ef6e2bd515f0947cd/Image-2_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" data-mid="198308520" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa6e554363b371d4dcf09cb4e3ce2c3d7842b2b87cce225ef6e2bd515f0947cd/Image-2_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="675" width_o="1200" height_o="675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2845373daf2324f4549b9b09495584f032159b5415c9ad4396da10bbc42a0720/Image-8_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" data-mid="198308524" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2845373daf2324f4549b9b09495584f032159b5415c9ad4396da10bbc42a0720/Image-8_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/591d082077e4c13d6e823cb96a9343cdc123bc34ebdff9731bc5ed0581543d4b/Image-1_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" data-mid="198308519" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/591d082077e4c13d6e823cb96a9343cdc123bc34ebdff9731bc5ed0581543d4b/Image-1_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02626a0bf33cd629519556fdf6e15152a9111bcd54a013a8967aa8136129111b/Image-3_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" data-mid="198308521" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02626a0bf33cd629519556fdf6e15152a9111bcd54a013a8967aa8136129111b/Image-3_I-am-a-salt-lake_The-Physics-Room_2023.jpg" /> https://anaiti.art/A-dusty-handrail-on-the-track-in-Aro-Toi-2023 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 22:49:01 +0000 Ana Iti art https://anaiti.art/A-dusty-handrail-on-the-track-in-Aro-Toi-2023 <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c174a22f310926d260fc94674519a05928f5eac35444b08b0e5f1251ba9dfaa1/003-2023-02-14_ANA-ITI_A-DUSTY-HANDRAIL-ON-THE-TRACK_TW-4.jpg" data-mid="230542307" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c174a22f310926d260fc94674519a05928f5eac35444b08b0e5f1251ba9dfaa1/003-2023-02-14_ANA-ITI_A-DUSTY-HANDRAIL-ON-THE-TRACK_TW-4.jpg" /> A DUSTY HANDRAIL ON THE TRACK Exhibited in Aro Toi / Art Collection in Focus: A dusty handrail on the track, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Te Whanganui-a-tara Wellington &nbsp;This short video shows the hands of the artist as she turns pages printed with fragments of text, some words of which are marked in bright yellow highlighter. The phrases Iti has selected are from sources she turned to whilst artist in resident at the McCahon House in Auckland in 2020. In particular, the writings of three wāhine Māori authors: Amokura (1978) by June Mitchell (Ngāti Raukawa, Te Arawa), a book on Meretini Te Akau; Keri Hulme’s Te Kaihau: The Windeater (1986); and JC Sturm’s House of the Talking Cat (1983). - Sophie Thorn Single-channel HD video, colour, sound, duration 10 mins 56 secs Photography by Ted Whitaker&nbsp; <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5acbbfccdfee9554a3638ab5f90ee5c67e8dadb45e566ba19aacbe580ab6ce87/001-2023-02-14_ANA-ITI_A-DUSTY-HANDRAIL-ON-THE-TRACK_TW-1.jpg" data-mid="230542299" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5acbbfccdfee9554a3638ab5f90ee5c67e8dadb45e566ba19aacbe580ab6ce87/001-2023-02-14_ANA-ITI_A-DUSTY-HANDRAIL-ON-THE-TRACK_TW-1.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13cf6c21177f7e9bcac6944149ab3425e09ca7cf7cadce614b9786206554b257/002-2023-02-14_ANA-ITI_A-DUSTY-HANDRAIL-ON-THE-TRACK_TW-3.jpg" data-mid="230542303" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13cf6c21177f7e9bcac6944149ab3425e09ca7cf7cadce614b9786206554b257/002-2023-02-14_ANA-ITI_A-DUSTY-HANDRAIL-ON-THE-TRACK_TW-3.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c174a22f310926d260fc94674519a05928f5eac35444b08b0e5f1251ba9dfaa1/003-2023-02-14_ANA-ITI_A-DUSTY-HANDRAIL-ON-THE-TRACK_TW-4.jpg" data-mid="230542307" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c174a22f310926d260fc94674519a05928f5eac35444b08b0e5f1251ba9dfaa1/003-2023-02-14_ANA-ITI_A-DUSTY-HANDRAIL-ON-THE-TRACK_TW-4.jpg" />