No.1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1956-2016

SING-SING In solitude with the spirits A silhouette Dances against the blaze Letting words and chants re‑echo. Fingertips of flames Race to every part Calling the sleepers to return To life with the dancer. As the fingers of flame Returned to the beat of the drum The dancer sweated and panted. Sweat fire, breathe smoke. Sleepers awake! Join the dance. STEVEN EDMUND WINDUO ‘The dancer’, in Albert Wendt (ed.), Nuanua: Pacific Writing in English since 1980 , Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1995, p.248.