Tonight on Māori TV, Te Ao with Moana will speak exclusively with Pat Mohi, whose face was digitally removed from an image of him laying down a wero, taiaha in hand, for an Easter pamphlet circulated by the Hope Project, a Christian charity group.
“The thing that got me the most were the people in the picture around me - they were grandchildren, friends,” Mohi says.
![The digitally changed picture of the wero.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/2YDSBGYAXFAVFOZFBXCZCUH5LU.jpg?auth=09673120ddb504a55c89f18eb78eed2f2d278cabd9749a1965439c02f3cd4d7b&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
“The wero itself, that position in particular is one that everybody adopts from our style. So I saw my father, I saw my nephews, I saw us all combined metaphorically within that position.”
![Pat Mohi in the original picture.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/TLETLLJ3EZBXPI7GNBWQ7SCK7I.jpg?auth=72a7639a922078956a60e1fcfc4a3243f95932dd69349c21ce428dc2515f4a63&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)