Timeline

I was thinking about how much we can see today, after watching this beautiful video of our current perspective of the sun http://youtu.be/dVCe5elYvu0 It made me wonder...

what will see in another 100 years?

13 March 2013

It is as if I have heard

the collapse of a mighty ice-shelf,

or an avalanche

from a tall mountain,

finally come to rest

on the ground

into the ocean,

after witnessing its slow 

motion towards the Earth

from a great distance.

The sound is deep and quiet.

The waves travel outward,

into space

into the universe

into dust.

And then everything is still,

just for a moment.

These atoms will continue on.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

I visited the Treaty of Waitangi, at Archives New Zealand.

You leave any bags and cameras at the desk, and walk down a short corridor,

past a film from the 1950's playing on loop about town developments

past facsimiles of the Waitangi Sheet

in a nondescript anti-chamber, paneled veneer

and a steel safe door

framing a space in perpetual midnight

Your eyes adjust to the darkness,

and you see a collection of large granite cabinets, arranged in the small space.

Underneath cold monolithic sheets of (what I imagine to be) bullet proof glass

the nine sheets of Te Tiriti wait,

their signatures looking out.

First Week, Third Year

Thinking about our constitution, and what it means...

There is an independent review of it this year, seeking your ideas about what our constitution should look like, here:

http://www.ourconstitution.org.nz/

Currently, I am looking at ways this conversation might be architecturalised.

The Artist in the Bathroom with the Toothpaste

Reminds me of a Max Gimblett piece