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Nonosina
E lele le gogosina, ae maʻau lava i le vai.
No matter where the nonosina may travel, it will always return home.
Passed down through a grandmother’s voice and carried forward by Tiana Liufau, renowned artist and dear friend to designer Manaola Yap, this proverb serves as the guiding notion for the first cross-Polynesian collaboration within the MANAOLA universe.
Perpetuating the performing legacies of their families, Manaola and Tiana share a treasured relationship that has grown through time, performances, conversations, and journeys. Shaped by the understanding that carrying culture forward is both a responsibility and a privilege, Nonosina x MANAOLA commemorates 60 years of Nonosina’s impact in the world through Pacific arts.
Inspired by years of collaboration and one meaningful moment of storytelling under the Honolulu night sky, this design reflects the delicate balance between where we come from and where we are going as modern Polynesians.
The manu journeys, placed into a cyclical motif denoting a convergence of three pathways: the past, present, and future. This pattern points to our ability to move and return to the crossroads of time and space, carrying ancestral wisdom and knowledge with us across oceans and generations. That we might hold onto the ʻike kūpuna as we continue our journeys of becoming ancestors ourselves.
In celebration of the dynamic cultures and arts of Moananuiākea, ever moving, ever returning, we present Nonosina x MANAOLA.
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