Imagining an ideal home in Aotearoa New Zealand to ‘place’ the ancient stone monument Zealandia, the artist visualised an emerald-green rainforest; an eco-system that encapsulates the origins and fragile beauty of the earth’s recently discovered 8th Continent – Zealandia. In this primordial landscape, first memorialised by NZ environmentalist and landscape photographer Craig Potton, the totemic stone figure is autonomous and isolated, encircled by native flora in an exotic scene that is quintessentially NZ. Made from indigenous stone that predates human existence, the X-figure evokes Māori creation myths, bridging heaven and earth – grounded in Papatūānuku, the earth Mother, and reaching up into the mist to Ranginui, the sky-father. Like an Island emerging from a largely submerged continental landmass, Zealandia (At Home) evokes the birth of a nation and anchors pre-human DNA to the earth.