The Now Festival of Tao, Less Presents More Present, This Time Give Time: November 2015

No. 10 (big yellow), Double sized bed sheets, 2300 x 6100 mm, 2010

Festival map, sites

View of Mt Taranaki from Fitzroy Beach. No. 5 (left, Charcoal) and No. 4 (right, Pink). 2010

Single bed sheets. Polyester mix (new) and cotton (used). 2012

View of Mt Taranaki from Fitzroy beach. No. 3 (big red), 2010

The Now Festival of Tao. Digital simulation and map, Tao Wells Nov. 2015

Festival Information

The Tao of X-Mass - December 20th, 11am to Dusk, Wakefield, New Zealand, 2015

“Less presents more present. This time give time.”

Tao Wells has been living in Wakefield for the last three years and feels it’s time to share some of his creativity with the town.

This December 20th, with some luck with the weather, the “Now Festival of Tao” will run for one brief afternoon all over Wakefield. Wells plans to subtly install a series of his creative works inspired by the spirit of DIY and limited wealth, in four different outdoor sites around Wakefield.

With family and friends in support, and to engage with any questions that may arise. Maps are available for people to find the different locations which are all within walking/ cycling distance of each other.

The works are made of stretched bed sheets, pillow cases and spare socks on wooden frames hung from fencing wire. For Wells the works are a conundrum, “It’s just a bed sheet stretched over a wooden frame, but to me it looks like a million dollars”. Wells also intends to debut a new template, "trouser pocket".

There’s a cheeky promotional theme playing on his name of Tao, a Chinese philosophy that contemplates nothingness as a path from which everything springs. Wells wishes to encourage an x-mas where time is taken to do "nothing".

“I want to do something different for Christmas this year. I thought I would make a stand and present values I actually have. It’s only taken me 43 years to get here”.

Beace (plan b)

Now Festival of Tao

Window on Wakefield, a local volunteer paper, story about us on page 28. November 2015