Besides the skin, the digestive tract is the tissue that is most exposed to environmental influences such as bacteria and viruses. Therefore, cells that form these barriers to the interior of the body also have special defence mechanisms. A.
Besides the skin, the digestive tract is the tissue that is most exposed to environmental influences such as bacteria and viruses. Therefore, cells that form these barriers to the interior of the body also have special defence mechanisms.
Vaughan Gunson: Lisa Clunie and Thorsten Hoppe s wet land exhibition must see for Hikurangi residents
8 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Mt Hikurangi overlooks the swamp to the west and the township to the east. Photo / Lisa Clunie
Northern Advocate
LIFE, ART AND EVERYTHING
How do we know a place? This is a question an exhibition at the Whangārei Art Museum by Lisa Clunie and Thorsten Hoppe asks us. Their subject, the Hikurangi repo (swamp), which I ve lived next to for 20 years, tucked snuggly on the floodplain s eastern boundary, in the township itself.
I knew a few things about the large expanse of flat land to the west. Like that before being drained, it was supposed to be the largest area of wetland in the Southern Hemisphere.