Encroachment Necklace
Encroachment Necklace
Wool Fabric, Cotton Rope, Canvas, Thread, Wood, Steel, Salt,
Sinkers, Sand.
500 x 500 x 1800
This work was created for an exhibition related to the 250 year anniversary of Cook's first voyage to New Zealand. I’m interested in the act, which seems so absurd today, of
turning up in an inhabited country and raising a flag to claim it as your
own. Viewers can raise the flag by
pulling the tag, which causes sand to cover embroidered Māori names for the
places Cook named Young Nick's Head, Poverty Bay, Cape Turnagain, Egmont, Queen
Charlotte Sound, Thames River, Tolaga Bay, Mercury Bay and Hawkes Bay.
