My practice has of late involved much documentation of a different kind.

Effecting the global migration of disparate furniture parts has yielded a quantity of customs dockets, GST receipts and biosecurity clearances; a stockpile of paper.

Wood in another form, that of shipping crates, often adorned in official stickers and paperwork arrives from afar. More specifically, raw materials and parts for my current artworks have explicitly been sourced from the Ukraine and from Russia.

These nations, grappling with their own issues of cultural sovereignty, are currently locked in conflict over land possession.

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These shipped items, each from their own individual and distinct cultures are brought together on New Zealand shores to amalgamate and comprise new hybrid forms.