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

Model X is tied to primordial worlds and grounded in Earth's rhythms. Hewn from a metamorphic rock from Te Waipounamu / South Island NZ which was uplifted to the surface over 100 million years ago, the marbled grain and planar form recalls ancient tectonic shifts in the formation of the World’s recently discovered  8th continent, Te Riu-a-Māui, Zealandia. Rich in history and texture, with traces of minerals, mica and crystals that sparkle and refract light, each sculpture in the edition of 10 is unique. Testing sequential proportions, each Model X distils a micro-moment of evolution.