At the entrance to new sculpture parklands in a major infrastructure project on Cadigal and Kameygal land, the star-shaped Asterisk welcomes visitors, a stone compass connecting time, culture and place. Named after the Ancient Greek word ‘asteriskos’ meaning 'little star', Asterisk points towards the Australian First Nations star – Ginan, the smallest star in the Southern Cross that was recently internatonally attributed with its ancestral Aboriginal star name. Combining celestial form with ancient stones, the sculpture draws together the metaphysical realms of earth and sky, evoking aspirational journeys and ancient star navigation systems that guided Indigenous and European travellers across oceans and land.

Carved from three unique stones from different corners of Australia, the sculpture's intersecting planes reveal markings that track the history of this oldest continent on Earth. One rock is a rare sandstone discovered deep below the sculpture's site during the new transport tunnel construction, being salvaged by the artist to formulate a new composite – 'tunnel-stone'. Anchoring stone from the Far North and the Far West, the tunnel-stone plane embeds the memories of a land that is now reshaped to enable new routes and destinations. Visible from a human-made 30mH mound at the St Peters Interchange in this new transport route, the sculpture's shadows create a sundial inside a stone circle of heritage road blocks. Mapping the change of seasons and indicating new directions, Asterisk invites locals and visitors to interact, reflect, and explore.