The Queen’s Royal Visit of 1953–54 to Aotearoa as paraphrased by E.B. Corbett (Pākehā {white} Minister of Māori affairs): “So far as the Queen herself is concerned They will just be the Māori people. She will not be concerned to know what tribes they have come from.” So far as I, myself, am concerned we will just be Māori however we please. How to be Māori? (and How to be a Māori artist?) Royal Visit of 2010, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2022 thinks about this question loaded with personal and communal history, prejudice, colonial ties, and impossible expectations. Lily Gentile, Book launch at Puke Ariki, 2022, 35mm film.