Material: Stainless Steel Size: L1000mm x D650mm x H280mm
Description: Fish shoaling, birds flocking, bees swarming; the behaviours of other species as they form swirling patterns in graceful unison and perfect synchronicity has been a constant fascination for humans. Close analysis of what’s going on reveals that each individual only needs to stay in touch with 7 others in the group to relate to the movement and cohesion of the entire unit. One researcher calls it spatial asymmetry. I started applying this seemingly random pattern of 7’s across many - any - areas of initial exploration of an idea. I also began applying it as a safe geometry to use as a starting point for the coherent resolution of a connection, intersection, or pattern. Life also begins to make better sense when it’s loosely corralled by the boundary of 7. Have seven heroes. Share close confidences with 7 others. Turn to seven colleagues to frame a project or explore an idea. Limit a palette to no more than seven variables. Above all, look for the patterns that emerge.
Ranga speaks of the recognition and acceptance of this behavioural dynamic, suggesting that we humans also function best when we look to the structure of 7 to guide us in our response to the wero (challenge).
Material: Stainless Steel, Puriri Size: L1450mm x H700mm x D300mm
Description: Wakatere is telling a story about the way different cultures begin to assimilate each others nuances as they come together in a kind of circling dance, consciously and unconsciously borrowing and adapting. The carved-from-solid waka form begins to take on the strip-planked mode of construction of a dinghy yet the lap-joint of the haumi persists; the dinghy assumes the rauawa decoration of the topsides of the waka; both anticipate the opportunity to incorporate the new technologies that will make their craft faster and easier to fly. The delicate tauihu in the bow reflects a highly refined design detail found from an early Polynesian voyaging waka.
Material: Stainless Steel, Resin Size: L1000mm x D780mm x D50mm
Description: Gondwanaland is the mythical name of the undersea continent surrounding Aotearoa New Zealand. Rūamoko is the restless youngest son of Ranginui and Papatūānuku and in Māori mythology he is said to be responsible for the massive under ocean volcanic eruptions that thrust these landforms into existence. The contours of the landscape are forming around the rippling sea as Rūamoko roars.
Material: NZ Native Puriri, Rata, Matai, Kauri, Totara, Rimu Size: L1500mm x W800mm x D300mm
Description: Formed from narrow remnant discards of New Zealand native species, No Protection speaks of the devastation being inflicted on rainforests worldwide by the rapacity of money interests. The shield has the look of a protective defense against the rampaging march of exploitation and destruction but its fragility and vulnerability to this onslaught suggests it has no real answer to the assault. The native forests of Aotearoa fell to comparable levels of destruction after colonisation, with vast areas of magnificent trees grown over more than 1000 years levelled to provide timber for the building of San Francisco and Sydney. This desecration came to an end as a result of the sustained action of activists who recognised the importance of treeforests in our planet’s ecosystem and did come to the defense of our heritage forests. We can all contribute to a sustained campaigning modelled on this success, challenging the thoughtless and destructive interests threatening the delicate balance of the troposphere. It’s a no-brainer, protecting the forests is urgent and means assuring the generations that follow us of a future.
Material: Kauri, Kohatu (Stone) Size: L150mm x H150mm x D50mm
Description: I guess it depends on your point of view, but the constant political vacillation over whether to commit to protection of the multiple threats to our global environment scares me. Putting economic performance ahead of urgent issues only compounds the problem for the generations that follow. It’s not the way of an intelligent culture to ignore their inheritance.
Material: Stainless Steel, Resin, Acrylic Size: W340mm x D290mm x H50mm
Description: The great navigators learned to use all of their senses to respond to multiple signs to show them the way. The promise of our digital world was efficiency. Nobody calculated the impact of diminished cognitive capacity, paving the way for robotics to replace us in many functional areas of our societies.
Material: Stainless Steel
Size: L1000mm x D650mm x H280mm
Description: Fish shoaling, birds flocking, bees swarming; the behaviours of other species as they form swirling patterns in graceful unison and perfect synchronicity has been a constant fascination for humans. Close analysis of what’s going on reveals that each individual only needs to stay in touch with 7 others in the group to relate to the movement and cohesion of the entire unit. One researcher calls it spatial asymmetry. I started applying this seemingly random pattern of 7’s across many - any - areas of initial exploration of an idea. I also began applying it as a safe geometry to use as a starting point for the coherent resolution of a connection, intersection, or pattern. Life also begins to make better sense when it’s loosely corralled by the boundary of 7. Have seven heroes. Share close confidences with 7 others. Turn to seven colleagues to frame a project or explore an idea. Limit a palette to no more than seven variables. Above all, look for the patterns that emerge.
Ranga speaks of the recognition and acceptance of this behavioural dynamic, suggesting that we humans also function best when we look to the structure of 7 to guide us in our response to the wero (challenge).