'E Tū' features another part of the story of journeys suggested in 'He Mauri'. As with the reference in the cyanotype 'He Mauri' to the Rarotongan banana this large work on canvas involves nīkau leaves from Rangitāhua 'Keremedec Islands' as another point of connection with the journey of the Mataatua waka. Within the show 'E Tū' sits next to the cyanotype 'Owairaka' and offers tautoko to the life and character of Wairaka and her legacy of following her instinct of intervention in saving the Mataatua waka by 'becoming like a man' and rescuing the mooring ropes and securing the waka hourua. The altruism in tana kōrero, 'Kia Whakatane au i ahau' is proudly remembered by rangatahi for these reasons. If she was in Tāmaki avoiding an arranged marriage she also established a tūrangawaewae a 'place to stand' for her descendants and for rangatahi today who choose to begin to establish their own sense of tino rangatiratanga. E tū 'stand!' is an instructive statement for rangatahi and those who follow on with the legacy Wairaka established. The painting uses the common metaphor in wānanga of te tupuranga o te ngahere which always begins with the colonising plants, the ferns, mānuka, karo, whau, tī, kawakawa providing the shelter and the conditions for the rākau rangatira. In this painting I use a local version of mouku 'fern' a descendant of the same plant in the same rohe that Wairaka would have experienced proliferating around her settlements. It only takes a shift in the local volcanic rock to set mouku off again in its prolific growth around the Mt Albert area.