Auckland Botanic Gardens Sculpture Commission

This piece, (steel and fibreglass) called Two with one shot, commemorates an Aotearoa taonga the extinct Huia. Excessive hunting motivated by human greed, led to the end of the species, by around 1900. As a Huia brooch (modeled off the one in the Te Papa Museum collection), comment is made on the profligate resourcing of these bird parts (tails, feathers, skins) for the benefit of Victorian European fashion tastes - graphic elements added to the brooch form will suggest this detail.