Te Taiho O Matariki. (The Inner Radiance of the Pleiades).

A large scale civic sculpture, executed for Hamilton City Council, curated by Rob Garrett.

Officially 

The sculpture represents Pleiades in the form of a growing vine, with the stars of Matariki forming the fruit on the vine. It honours the city’s first inhabitants (Garden Place was first used by Maori as a garden and observatory); and celebrates the horticultural heritage of the name of the city’s civic plaza: Garden Place. The curving vine-like form of the sculpture also references the nearby Waikato River which snakes through the city.

Personally

The sculpture represents an enormous personal undertaking to hand build a public commission with as little commercial assistance as possible. I discovered that working with