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With its focus on a primordial landscape over which light and dark simultaneously fall, Takaka: Night and Day can be interpreted as representing God’s gift of light to the earth. McCahon commented in 1966:

I saw something logical orderly and beautiful belonging to the land and not yet to its people. Not yet understood or communicated, not even really yet invented. My work has largely been to communicate this vision and to invent the way to see it. (Te Moananui a Kiwa, 2005)