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Smiley Tribe - 04
SKU:
300_SMLYTB_04
NZ$699.99
NZ$699.99
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Maori & Emoji Inspired wooden wall art.
Dimensions W: 282mm, H: 282mm, D: 36mm
Weight: 1.2kg
Material: 2.5D Carved MDF, Acrylic Paint, Black Wood Stain, Spray Varnish, Hanging Wire
Limited to: 13
Your unique limited edition art piece
Roy McDougall makes your exclusive signed art piece
We ship for $25 within NZ and from $50 internationally
Your artwork arrives ready to hang.
This Artwork is Not Weatherproof
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The Smiley Tribe Story:
This piece is part of the Smiley Tribe Series.
Smiley Tribe is a playful fusion of a Mataora Moko (Maori Male Face Tattoo) and a Smiley Face.
The Smiley Tribe takes the well-known yellow circle of the Smiley face and adopts a unique Maori face tattoo. The face sits on a jet black background with the colour having an underlying green tone and all over metallic gold with a spray varnish finish.
Mataora Moko
The designs of Maori male facial tattooing commonly known as Moko, are also referred to as Mataora Moko. Mataora is the Mythical figure attributed with venturing into Rarohenga (the Underworld), bringing back with him knowledge of tattooing.
Tā moko reflects an individual's whakapapa (ancestry) and personal history. In earlier times, it was an important signifier of social rank, knowledge, skill and eligibility to marry.
Many of the designs are universal. In particular, the spirals that swirl across the nose, cheek and lower jaw. The lines of a moko accentuate the lines of the face to emphasise the expressions. The main lines in a Māori tattoo are called manawa (heart). These lines represent your life journey. Common tattoo designs can include the koru, which represents an unfurling silver fern, and symbolically represents a new life or the unfolding of someone's life path. When used in tā moko, the koru normally represents a loved one or family member.
Smiley Face
The smiley as we know it today – a smile and oval eyes on a perfectly round, sunshine-yellow face – was invented by graphic designer Mr Harvey Ball in 1963 at the behest of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company, a Massachusetts-based insurance firm that was looking to boost the morale of its staff.
In 1970, Messrs Murray and Bernard Spain took Mr Ball’s design, which was still without copyright, added the words “Have A Nice Day”, and began churning out merchandise on an industrial scale. In doing so, the Spain brothers created one of the biggest fads of the decade, selling an estimated 50 million badges and enshrining the smiley face as an icon of mainstream popular culture. But the iconography of popular culture is always a target for subversion, and it wasn’t long before the now ubiquitous smiley was co-opted by artists, illustrators and the nascent punk scene, who saw in its blank, dopey expression of bliss something sinister, corruptible.
In the half a century since the Spain brothers took a corporate icon and turned it into a cultural phenomenon, the smiley has never fully dropped out of the collective consciousness. Artists and designers continue to be drawn to the graphic simplicity and ironic potential of the smiley, as shown by “Grin Reaper”, a 2005 artwork by Banksy, in which a yellow smiling face peers out from under the hood of the spectral manifestation of Death himself.
Creating the Smiley Tribe
I created the design in Auckland, starting with a digital illustration, then bringing the illustration into my CNC Program where I make a 2.5D model of the artwork. From the model I generate the g-code or CNC cutting code ready for the carving process. The material is loaded on the CNC machine and the piece is carved over a few hours. The carved art piece is then inspected, sanded, sealed, sanded again, painted, varnished and finally a hanging wire installed.
As you can see to create this sculpted piece there are many processes involved making it a truly special and bespoke item.
Packaging:
The item will be packaged with bubble wrapping inside a cardboard outer box.
Delivery:
The item will be couriered to your chosen destination. Courier and Shipping times TBC
This piece is part of the Smiley Tribe Series.
Smiley Tribe is a playful fusion of a Mataora Moko (Maori Male Face Tattoo) and a Smiley Face.
The Smiley Tribe takes the well-known yellow circle of the Smiley face and adopts a unique Maori face tattoo. The face sits on a jet black background with the colour having an underlying green tone and all over metallic gold with a spray varnish finish.
Mataora Moko
The designs of Maori male facial tattooing commonly known as Moko, are also referred to as Mataora Moko. Mataora is the Mythical figure attributed with venturing into Rarohenga (the Underworld), bringing back with him knowledge of tattooing.
Tā moko reflects an individual's whakapapa (ancestry) and personal history. In earlier times, it was an important signifier of social rank, knowledge, skill and eligibility to marry.
Many of the designs are universal. In particular, the spirals that swirl across the nose, cheek and lower jaw. The lines of a moko accentuate the lines of the face to emphasise the expressions. The main lines in a Māori tattoo are called manawa (heart). These lines represent your life journey. Common tattoo designs can include the koru, which represents an unfurling silver fern, and symbolically represents a new life or the unfolding of someone's life path. When used in tā moko, the koru normally represents a loved one or family member.
Smiley Face
The smiley as we know it today – a smile and oval eyes on a perfectly round, sunshine-yellow face – was invented by graphic designer Mr Harvey Ball in 1963 at the behest of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company, a Massachusetts-based insurance firm that was looking to boost the morale of its staff.
In 1970, Messrs Murray and Bernard Spain took Mr Ball’s design, which was still without copyright, added the words “Have A Nice Day”, and began churning out merchandise on an industrial scale. In doing so, the Spain brothers created one of the biggest fads of the decade, selling an estimated 50 million badges and enshrining the smiley face as an icon of mainstream popular culture. But the iconography of popular culture is always a target for subversion, and it wasn’t long before the now ubiquitous smiley was co-opted by artists, illustrators and the nascent punk scene, who saw in its blank, dopey expression of bliss something sinister, corruptible.
In the half a century since the Spain brothers took a corporate icon and turned it into a cultural phenomenon, the smiley has never fully dropped out of the collective consciousness. Artists and designers continue to be drawn to the graphic simplicity and ironic potential of the smiley, as shown by “Grin Reaper”, a 2005 artwork by Banksy, in which a yellow smiling face peers out from under the hood of the spectral manifestation of Death himself.
Creating the Smiley Tribe
I created the design in Auckland, starting with a digital illustration, then bringing the illustration into my CNC Program where I make a 2.5D model of the artwork. From the model I generate the g-code or CNC cutting code ready for the carving process. The material is loaded on the CNC machine and the piece is carved over a few hours. The carved art piece is then inspected, sanded, sealed, sanded again, painted, varnished and finally a hanging wire installed.
As you can see to create this sculpted piece there are many processes involved making it a truly special and bespoke item.
Packaging:
The item will be packaged with bubble wrapping inside a cardboard outer box.
Delivery:
The item will be couriered to your chosen destination. Courier and Shipping times TBC