The limited edition archival print Zealandia (At Home) anchors an X-figure as both monument and measure within a primordial forest where stone, mist, and canopy hold time in suspension. Bridging past and future, the work threads classical beauty through a futurist register.

The X-figure’s geometry recalculates the “perfect proportions" of Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man (c.1490) through the median dimensions of women worldwide, shifting the classical canon from idealised male symmetry toward a collective, living standard. Carved from ancient marbled rock unearthed in Aotearoa New Zealand, the form carries the history of land / whenua. It embodies the intersection of tectonic plates whose collisions fractured terrain over millennia and raised the once-submerged continent Te Riu-a-Māui – Zealandia – from the ocean floor.

The emerald wilderness, first photographed by environmental artist Craig Potton, becomes a living matrix in which the X-figure recalibrates perception, bringing forward a biosystem dense with evolving ecologies and origin stories. Rooted in Papatūānuku (Earth Mother) and reaching through mist toward Ranginui (Sky Father), the figure bridges earth and sky. Overhead, the forest canopy arcs like a Renaissance vision of creation, where touch and transformation stretch across the void. Hewn from a continent long held underwater, Zealandia (At Home) offers resilience and renewal as an ancestral body emerging into view – linking myth and matter across deep time.