Over the years I have built a range of different installations ranging from a six sided mirrored room to more ambitious projects such as the effigy and temples. In 2019 I am looking to co lead a project to do both the temple and effigy to unite the two. We are looking to use woven bamboo and landscaping over some of these structures to tell the story of how Ranginui and Papatuanuku where split apart to make the world for man.
In 2014 I lead the design and build of the burns 11 meter tall wooden effigy.
With flame thrower hands and over 200 pallets in the construction the heat was remarkably intense
2012 I designed a temple built exclusively un-milled materials. The frame was built from elephant bamboo and as you can see the lining was all driftwood collected and trucked to the site.
This burn was particularly emotional as a local volunteer had committed suicide shortly before the event started and the local iwi chose this even to hold a service and carvings symbolic of the man were placed on the fire.
This last burn I acted as 2IC for the effigy build to support one of my previous crew.
It was an intensely rewarding experience and I highly enjoyed the quantity of climbing and abseiling.
The design lead asked me to help him with making the man speak and burn blue. For the I installed a pyrophone and blow torch in the chest. for the blue fire I have often had problems with contamination when using the simple "bag of fuel technique" and due to evaporation rate of the unique fuel, just dousing it is also not possible. So we installed a steel pressure vessel and used LPG to blow the fuel directly where we wanted it to go. This worked perfectly and the blue tears poured convincingly from the eyes.
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