Nā te tāmitanga ā tauiwi i te Māori i Aotearoa, tokomaha ngā reanga i noho mōriroriro mai i te reo me te ahurea Māori. Ko tēnei mahi hinonga he whakapakari i te pito mata o te pūrākau mā te whakamahi i ngā hangarau matihiko hai honohono ano i ngā reanga whakatipu ki ngā pūrākau ā ō rātau mātua tīpuna. He wawata kia noho ngā kōrero mō Māui-tikitiki-a-Taranga, i wāwāhitia, i mukua i mua, ki roto i te kōputu kohinga kōrero kotahi. I te waihangatanga o ngā pūrākau 14 mō Māui, i mātua whakaoreorehia te hono ki waenga i ngā whakaahua, ngā oro me te wairua o te korero ā-waha o te pūrākau. Ko te mutunga mai o te mahi o ngā pūrākau mō Māui, he whakaara ake i te kounga o te reo Māori me te whakaohooho i ngā tikanga tohutohu, e huna ana i roto i ēnei kōrero o ōnamata. Ko te tuhinga whakapae e tāpiri nei, he arohaehae i ngā mahi patuero, whakapēpē me te pakokitanga i te hōhonutanga o ngā pūrākau Māori.

In Aotearoa New Zealand, as a consequence of colonisation, generations of Māori have been alienated from both their language and culture. This project harnessed an artistic re-consideration of pūrākau (traditional stories) such that previously fractured or erased stories relating to Māui-tikitiki-a-Taranga were orchestrated into a coherent narrative network. In the design of 14 episodes of the Māui narrative, connections were made between imagery, sound and the resonance of traditional, oral storytelling. The resulting Māui pūrākau, function not only to revive the beauty of te reo Māori, but also to resurface traditional values that lie embedded within these ancient stories. The exegetical writing accompanying the work critiqued the impact of bowdlerisation, infantilisation and fragmentation on the complexity of Maori pūrākau.