A sculpture still becoming, Tablet carries encoded passage—where secrecy is a structure. Fusing ancient stone and copper with algorithmic logic, a gold code unlocks an AI–AR totem tethered to its keyholder, a threshold held in suspense as aura. Equally treasure and tool, icon and index, Tablet imagines a poetic future archive in a deep-time register.

Awarded the 2026 New Zealand Small Sculpture Prize at Waiheke Art Gallery, juror Deborah McCormick described Tablet's mixed reality presence:

“Compact in scale yet architectonic in structure, Gatfield’s work brings stone, metal, code and virtual apparition into a single sculptural system. Its three elements — stone square, copper cube, and gold code — unlock ideas around the everyday technology of a tablet, archive and screen, imbued within the traditional sculptural material of Carrara marble. The inscribed Fibonacci-derived gold barcode lures us to seek out its meaning and decipher its code. The copper cube beneath it is not just a pedestal but an open space that allows volume to move around the sculpture.”