by Susan | Oct 16, 2023 | Monuments
The New Zealand National Memorial to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd was erected below the lookout on Mt Victoria, in honor of polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd, US Navy. It was unveiled on 11 March 1962, the fifth anniversary of Byrd’s death. Originally covered...
by Susan | Feb 1, 2021 | Monuments
Handspan is a large work of art, almost 20 meters in diameter, which rises in a double spiraled pathway to a height of about 3 meters with walls on each side, covered with some 4,000 terracotta hand casts made from hand prints of community members of all ages (from 3...
by Susan | Jan 13, 2021 | Monuments
To celebrate peace at the end of World War I, the Boy Scouts proposed lighting beacon fires across the British Empire. The idea was inspired by the words of Sir Edward Grey on August 3, 1914, who looked out of his window in London at dusk and remarked: “The lamps are...
by Susan | Oct 21, 2019 | Monuments
The stairs of this sculpture are made of black granite. They evoke the image of a war memorial, without specifically referencing life or death. It shows how to get from the word Body to the word Soul by changing one letter at a time to create a new four letter word....
by Susan | Jul 17, 2017 | Monuments
In the Summer of 2015, Ports of Auckland proposed building a monument to the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on the city’s waterfront. The Greenpeace vessel was sunk in a terrorist attack while it was moored at Marsden Wharf in July 1985. The wharf is being...
