Mounted on an Italian stone plinth and modelled on the Roman numeral 10, Model X is both a model for the artist's sculpture Zealandia (Venice Architecture Biennale 2018) and itself a 'perfect 10'. The figure re-calculates the perfect proportions of Leonardo DaVinci’s Vitruvian Man (c.1490), a Renaissance ideal embedded in architecture, industrial design, and aesthetics. As an X-chromosome, Model X develops a new blueprint. Based on the median proportions of women across the globe, it formulates a collective female DNA. Reaching out, this abstract figure resets the waistline and sculpts strong limbs into a multifaceted silhouette where perceptions of mass and weight oscillate as the spectator encircles the work.

Tied to primordial worlds, Model X is hewn from a metamorphic rock uplifted to the surface in Te Waipounamu NZ over 100 million years ago. The marbled grain and planar form recall ancient tectonic shifts in the formation of the 8th continent, Te Riu-a-Māui, Zealandia. With traces of minerals, mica and crystals that sparkle and refract light, the sculpture is rich in history and texture, and anchored in Earth's rythyms. Each sculpture in the edition of 10 is unique – intuited by the telluric stone, the Model X edition documents a sequence of micro-moments in evolution.