The Song of the Shining Cuckoo links the panoramic progression and Stations of the Cross to Maori beliefs regarding the departing spirit. Based on a poem written by Ralph Hotere's father, Tangirau Hotere, it depicts the flight of a cuckoo above the shifting sands of Muriwai beach, a symbol of the recently departed spirit making its way to Te Rerenga Wairua, from where it will begin the journey to ancestral Hawaiki. In this space, order meets disorder and universal laws confront conjecture. Jacky Redgate worked from eighteenth century mathematical formulae derived form the discipline of Solid Geometry to create the six computer rendered solids of equal volume but differing shape in Equal Solids. Redgate unsettles experience and perception through the application of calculations dating back to Isaac Newton.
Ideas reappear as computer lathed forms that defy comprehension.
While we imagine we can understand the world sufficiently from our personal perspective, we quickly flounder when thrown into aspects of fields beyond our own sphere. Zara Stanhope 1 C.P.Snow,The Two Cultures and the scientific revolution, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1959.