Theo | Greymouth, West Coast

“I don’t think I’ve got anything that I really regret, or regret in the deeper sense of the meaning. I just don’t do stuff that I think I’d regret.

I think I probably overthink it, but sort of just generally don’t do something that you’d regret, is what I do, because I don’t feel like I need to.

When I was about one-and-a-half, or two, my parents’ decided to go overseas for a while, and so we travelled around the world for I think it was something like a year, and we went to Japan, France, pretty much all through Europe. It was great. Then we came back and we had this house in Murchison on a little farm. It was pretty great. We were renting in this valley that we shared with some of our friends. So if you know where Murchison is, and you’re driving to it from the Westport end, it’s before you get to the bridge. There was what we called the hugging statue, which was a clay statue with real-sized people, and they were all standing in a circle hugging at the front of the drive. It was pretty cool-looking. Whoever made it did a really good job. I think it might have been a quarter mile drive up to the house, and then the house was this big, wooden giant house. Then we moved to Westport, and helped some of our other friends to create. They were doing sort of an art enterprise that was a coalition between an art gallery and a long-term housing arrangement, and we helped out there, I think it might have been seven years ago, and then we moved to Greymouth. We’ve been here ever since. My parents have been working with the New Coasters, and the art gallery.

I value my family and my friends, and my life. Well, not my personal mortality. More the life that I’m currently living, and everything.”