Haumoana Rock Pool
Private Commission, 2009
Haumoana Rock Pool is a pair of interrelated forms that play on the positive and negative spaces of the artwork and the ‘shadow form; a recurring and pivotal theme in my practice. The works allude to the existing stone edges that surround a series of interconnected reflection pools that cascade down the terrain.
The Vertical Form:
The first element of the sculpture is to be a double sided convex disc that stands vertically on edge and turns gently in the wind. This element is designed allow changing and varying points of view.
The disc surfaces are cut away with a random pattern of organically shaped holes, similar to the shapes of the stone boulder edges of the pools, to leave a treelike skeletal grid frame. There is allusion to leaf structures, fungi, the stone pool edges, estuarine channels and interconnecting streams.
The Horizontal Form:
The second element of the work is a Trompe d’oeil. The ‘shadow’ form is created from a complex assemblage of the ‘drop-outs’ produced during the laser cutting of both sides of the vertical disc work, the drop-outs were welded together to become a more randomly patterned circular form of steel stones that ‘float’ over the nearby pond surface, producing a negative of the standing disc.