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Project Cover, Dean Buchanan, Feathers and Forest. Oil on hessian cloth, signed and dated, 2021. 134 x 192 cm.

Chapter 1, Dean Buchanan, Fire and Rain. Oil on hessian cloth, signed and dated, 2021. 106 x 188 cm.

Chapter 2, Dean Buchanan, Branch and Vine Shelters. Oil on hessian cloth, signed and dated, 2021. 121x 177 cm.

Chapter 3, Dean Buchanan, Trumpets. Oil on hessian cloth, signed and dated, 2021. 174 x 156 cm.

Chapter 4, Dean Buchanan, Caaqi in the Trees. Oil on hessian cloth, signed and dated, 2021. 126 x 162 cm.

Chapter 5, Dean Buchanan, Caaqi Descending. Oil on hessian cloth, signed and dated, 2021. 123 x 147 cm.

Chapter 6, Dean Buchanan, In the Ring. Oil on hessian cloth, signed and dated, 2018. 142 x 191 cm.

Chapter 7, Dean Buchanan, Chapel at Dawn. Oil on hessian cloth, signed and dated, 2021. 119 x 178 cm.

Bonus Animation, Dean Buchanan, Storm. Oil on hessian cloth, signed and dated, 2020. 120 x 174 cm.

Bonus Track, Dean Buchanan, Red Forest. Oil on hessian cloth, signed and dated, 2021. 108 x 178 cm.

Bonus Track Credits, Dean Buchanan, A Sign of Faith. Oil on hessian cloth, signed and dated, 2022. 97 x 135 cm.

The Animations

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About the Art and Animations

A Q&A with Rich Shapero

Q: You asked the prominent self-taught Kiwi artist Dean Buchanan to paint the canvases that comprise the Beneath Caaqi’s Wings Gallery. How did this collaboration come to be? 

RS: I came across Dean’s paintings at a handful of galleries and auction houses in Auckland. I was excited by them, bought three and lived with them during the time the ideas for Beneath Caaqi’s Wings were evolving. Once I’d reached out to him and made his acquaintance, we talked about the idea of doing a series of paintings to support the project. He was game, so we tried our luck with a first. It went well. The collaboration continued over the course of a year. I greatly enjoyed our interactions. Dean is a wonderful character—madcap, brilliant, with a brutal sense of humor.

Well into our collaboration, we made an unexpected discovery. Dean has a friendship with Tchad Blake, who did a lot of the mixing for Wild Animus. Working with Tchad in his studio in Wales, many years before, I’d remembered being impressed by the paintings hanging in Tchad’s dining room, where we ate between sessions. Dean painted those. So my first exposure to Dean’s work went back many years.


Q: Buchanan’s paintings feature intense, colorful landscapes that burst with energy and passion—much like your writing.

RS: We have similar temperaments. He likes to challenge himself to distort reality—to capture truth through unlikely means. His experiments aren’t always successful. But when an oblique strategy works, the results are often arresting and powerful. Dean’s a creator, an original. One of a kind.

About the Art and Animations

A Q&A with Rich Shapero

Q: You asked the prominent self-taught Kiwi artist Dean Buchanan to paint the canvases that comprise the Beneath Caaqi’s Wings Gallery. How did this collaboration come to be? 

RS: I came across Dean’s paintings at a handful of galleries and auction houses in Auckland. I was excited by them, bought three and lived with them during the time the ideas for Beneath Caaqi’s Wings were evolving. Once I’d reached out to him and made his acquaintance, we talked about the idea of doing a series of paintings to support the project. He was game, so we tried our luck with a first. It went well. The collaboration continued over the course of a year. I greatly enjoyed our interactions. Dean is a wonderful character—madcap, brilliant, with a brutal sense of humor.

Well into our collaboration, we made an unexpected discovery. Dean has a friendship with Tchad Blake, who did a lot of the mixing for Wild Animus. Working with Tchad in his studio in Wales, many years before, I’d remembered being impressed by the paintings hanging in Tchad’s dining room, where we ate between sessions. Dean painted those. So my first exposure to Dean’s work went back many years.


Q: Buchanan’s paintings feature intense, colorful landscapes that burst with energy and passion—much like your writing.

RS: We have similar temperaments. He likes to challenge himself to distort reality—to capture truth through unlikely means. His experiments aren’t always successful. But when an oblique strategy works, the results are often arresting and powerful. Dean’s a creator, an original. One of a kind.

“Dean is a wonderful character—madcap, brilliant, with a brutal sense of humor.”

Q: Fellow Kiwi Tomas Cottle animated Buchanan’s artwork to captivating effect.

RS: Tom’s done some wonderful work for us, but his animations of Dean’s paintings are special, I think. The paintings have a three-dimensional quality to begin with, and Tom was able to build on that. As much as any visual accompaniment for any of our projects, I think, the BCW animations do a wonderful job of bringing the viewer into the world of the novel. I was hoping Dean would find them a worthy addition to his paintings, and he did.

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Collaboration

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Fire and Rain

Fire and Rain

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Art, Animation and Music Credits

All animations drawn from paintings by Dean Buchanan
Animations by Tomas Cottle
Produced by Jan Lindsay-Smith and Josh Turner
Sound design and editing by Josh Turner

Ch. 1
Painting: “Fire and Rain”
Audio: “Kissed,” from For There and Then, 2005
Label: Artifact Music
Written by William Parsons
Performed by Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan

Ch. 2
Painting: “Branch and Vine Shelters”
Audio: “Jeruk Bali,” from Solo, 2001
Label: Artifact Music
Written by Burhan Sukarma
Performed by Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan

Ch. 3
Painting: “Trumpets”
Audio: “Sikhut Sanga,” from Gamelan Dharma Swara, 2010
Label: Turis Music
Written by Andrew McGraw
Performed by Gamelan Dharma Swara

Ch. 4
Painting: “Caaqi in the Trees”
Audio: “Penan Flute” from Borneo Death Blow, 2020
Label: 773517 Records DK
Written, produced and performed by Raphael Treza

Ch. 5
Painting: “Caaqi Descending”
Audio: “Rain” from Trance Gong, 1994
Label: ¿What Next? Recordings
Written by Jeffrey Morris 
Performed by Gamelan Pacifica (Director: Jarrad Powell)

Ch. 6
Painting: “In the Ring” 
Audio: “Paradise Bees” from Cobra Gypsies, 2015
Label: 773517 Records DK
Written, produced and performed by Raphael Treza

Ch. 7
Painting: “Chapel at Dawn”
Audio: “Hornbill” from Borneo Death Blow, 2020
Label: 773517 Records DK
Written, produced and performed by Raphael Treza

Bonus Video
Painting: “Storm”
Audio: Igorot music, courtesy of Filipino TV and Folklorico

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Rich Shapero is an author, writer, and musician whose novels are available in hardcover, as ebooks (on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books and Google Books), and in the TooFar Media app for iOS and Android (on the Apple App Store and Google Play). His titles include The Hornet's Spell, Hibiscus Mask, Beneath Caaqi’s Wings , Dreams of Delphine, The Slide That Buried Rightful, Dissolve, Island Fruit Remedy, Balcony of Fog, Rin, Tongue and Dorner, Arms from the Sea, The Hope We Seek, Too Far, and Wild Animus. Use this site to learn more about Rich Shapero and his work.
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