Referring to Rewi Maniapoto's response never to surrender his besieged pa at Orakau in 1864, the words Ake Ake Ake are also found in the final words of the Lord's Prayer in Maori. In both instances the sense of 'for ever' is enhanced by repetition, as if eternity could be made bigger or more than what we would normally comprehend as 'ever'. The concept of 'nothingness' featured in Maori cosmological narratives is similarly plural rather than singular distinguished in turn by concepts and ideas pertaining to individual states of nothingness which existed before there was 'anything'.

Representing such possibilities in mathematical terms, that there could be infinities of different sizes for instance, has been demonstrated in Cantor's diagonalisation argument in which the infinity of decimal numbers is shown to be greater than the infinity of counting numbers.

Endeavouring to represent a sense of infinity in painting has been attempted in various ways. Without drawing the viewer towards the horizon as an infinity pool might do in a landscape or engaging the use of perspective drawing, I have used repetition, pattern, colour and text to create an 'all over-ness' in oposition to the way modernist painters sometimes engaged an 'all over-ness' to refer to nothing other than the painting itself.
Making this work often seems to take forever and by making visible its method of constuction I am also interested to reiterate the sense of perseverance in the face of adversity which commitment to any project entails for its successful realisation