> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Jacinda Adhern > Reference:: *A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir* (NZ: Random House, 2025) > Date:: 2025 > Tags:: #warp #NewZealand > WeftLinks:: [[Migrant and refugee value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft provides a livelihood with dignity through market access]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Box carved by prisoner focuses attention of New Zealand Prime Minister ### Highlights > in a peach jewelry holder I purchased at Kmart, others in a wooden engraved box. I reached for the box now, as I considered the dilemma the country was in—that I was in. The box had been carved by an incarcerated person in one of the programs we had launched in a New Zealand prison. It was carved from honey-colored rimu, one of our native woods. The top of the box had a darker wood inlaid into it, with the stylized image of a rose in bloom, petals unraveling from around the bud of the rose, the long stem extending out of the length of the box