Maumahara Mo Waiparuru
Maumahara Mo Waiparuru - Remembering Ancient Pathways
The Grafton Gully Motorway Project expanded the scale of the roading network leading to Auckland’s port, and added another layer of change to the landscape story in the heart of Auckland City.
These stone and steel markers in the gully trace a meandering pathway reminiscent of that traveled by the Waiparuru Stream on its way through the ancient Grafton Gully to the Waitemata harbour. This pathway is a passage of time and a journey of release.
Maumahara was a creative collaboration that seeks to encourage us to remember. It is a prayer for deepening our relationship with the land and the stories of our cultures embedded in it.
http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/node/26782
maumahara mo waiparuru
remembering ancient pathways
2003
GRAFTON GULLY MOTORWAY, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
Client: Freeflow Alliance (Transit New Zealand, Beca, Higgins & Fletcher) on behalf of Transit New Zealand in association with Auckland City Council.
Project team: Caroline Robinson, Cabal, Freeflow, Springbank General Metalwork, Pita Turei, Ngai Tai, Ngarimu Blair, Ngati Whatua O Orakei
100m x 30m
earthworks, basalt stone, steel
Photos: Caroline Robinson
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ART WITHIN LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURE
personal and collective mythology
Ideas about place making are changing, as our society feels the torque of the unsustainable environmental pressures we have put on the earth. Added to the rise of complexity in our social and cultural dynamics, these challenges evoke a call for a deeper humanity and a more bold imagination. Being at the heart of this collective conversation is what art means to me, exploring questions about who we are, where we have come from, and where we are going.
I sculpt and build with durable materials such as stone, steel and earth, animating public and private spaces with a raw physicality and mythology. The wisdom embedded within each context inspires me, and I use both instinct and active research to draw connections through cultural memory and identity, geology, biology and the full diversity of life expressed within our physical landscapes. The engagement and enhancement of this richness is both provocative and practical as a way of thinking about the future landscapes we are building.
