Amid a primordial forest, Zealandia (At Home) stands between past and future – classical in poise yet futuristic in demeanour. Its proportions reimagine the ideal geometry of Renaissance Man through the median dimensions of women worldwide. Carved from ancient metamorphic rock unearthed in Aotearoa New Zealand, the X-figure embodies the intersection of tectonic plates whose collisions fractured landforms over millennia and raised the submerged continent of Te Riu-a-Māui – Zealandia – from the ocean floor.

Set within an emerald wilderness first photographed by environmental artist Craig Potton, the sculpture's hourglass form reflects both human symmetry and geological upheaval. It lives within a biosystem rich with evolving ecologies and origin stories. Rooted in Papatūānuku (Earth Mother) and reaching through mist toward Ranginui (Sky Father), the monument bridges earth and sky. Overhead, the forest canopy arcs in a composition recalling Renaissance visions of creation – where touch and transformation stretch across the void. Hewn from the heart of a once-submerged continent, Zealandia (At Home) embodies resilience and renewal – an ancestral body emerging into view, linking myth and matter across deep time.