Mason’s work, celebrated across the Pacific region and Europe, offers the viewer a journey through the rich symbolic imagination of one of Fiji’s most daring and distinctive visual artists.
The first Pacific artist to be awarded the title of Arirang Master, honoring outstanding practitioners of intangible cultural heritage, Somumu’s deft skill in figurative styles communicates the complex and at times agonizing relationship between modernity and traditional Fijian culture.
From his early period interpretations of cave petroglyphs to a prolific body of written artistic commentary, Josaia’s triune creative philosophy is founded on embodied reverence for Culture, Religion and Esoteric Spirituality.