“ Si'oto'ofa Lepuha:
With both sincere appreciation and deep admiration, may I too join the ranks in thanking you for your great works of art / tufunga. Well done Uili! Like what 'Inoke Fotu Hu'akau rightly alluded to, you have certainly unpacked the hidden secrets of truly, infinitely complex Moana / Tongan kupesi in the most amazing of manners as a true "fakafelavai / kupesi 'o e kohi mo e va" / "intersector of lines and spaces," which bespeak of the fakafelavai / intersection, that is, fakahoko / connection and fakamavae / separation, of eternally-moving, constantly-in-motion kohi / lines with respect to your subject matters under the investigative process, in both multi-dimensional, multi-directional ways.
You have truly demonstrated the very fact that beauty is NOT in the "eye of the beholder" but rather IN the "works of art themselves," where you were actively engaged in the ta-va / time-space, fuo-uho / form-content transformation of the subject matters under the creative process from a condition of felekeu / chaos to a state of maau / order through sustained tatau / symmetry and potupotutatau / harmony to produce faka'ofo'ofa / malie / beauty. So, beauty is a function of both symmetry and harmony, the summation of a series of points of intersection or connection and separation, defined by mata / eye or, its mirror image, ava / hole, as in mata'ipolosi / eye-of-the-brush or, its opposite, ava'ipolosi / hole-of-the-brush, the space / place / point where ivi / energy or teke / force is most dense and intense.
Besides, both the criticality and logicality of your most beautiful work definitely stand to debunk many of the Western-based, foreign-led arbitrary concepts and practices forcibly imposed on local Moana / Tongan sense of aesthetics and of art and literature -- indeed a type of Moanaism [or, Oceanism, in Professor Epeli Hau'ofa's terminologies] that runs parallel to Said's Orientalism -- as in the highly problematic distinction between art and craft. where "beauty" is made arbitrarily to confine to the former and "functionality" to the latter, when they are both, in reality, inseparable in Moana / Tongan thinking and doing of art, as in nature, mind and society.
By the way, there is more to be said but have a great and successful exhibition and keep up the good deed.
ANFF leva e malanga ka e tau,
'Ofa atu fau mo e manatu ma'u,
Hufanga ”