Saturday, March 30, 2013

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?

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

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.






Saturday, March 9, 2013

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.



Friday, March 8, 2013

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:

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

Friday, March 1, 2013