Plot by Brett Graham for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018

Plot invites us to consider how we think about and value land. Brett Graham (Ngāti Korokī Kahukura) was interested in how Te Waipounamu (the South Island) had been surveyed, divided up and then ‘purchased’ from Ngāi Tahu by the settler government. The carved marble topographic rendering of Te Waipounamu sits on a sarcophagus-like form, suggesting that the land endures a death when viewed only as a commodity.