Sited in the volcanic landscape and constitutional setting of Government House Auckland, Zealandia resonates in time and place. Here, on the flanks of Mount Eden Maungawhau, the river of grain in the ancient stone marks the edge of the ancestral mountain's lava flow. Carved from a precious rock estimated at 100 million years old, the sculpture’s intersecting planes mimic the clashing tectonic plates that formed the newly discovered 8th Continent, Te Riu-a-Māui Zealandia.

Streaked with minerals and crystals, the primordial stone tracks the DNA of this land. Like a mythical being predating human migration to Aotearoa, the X-figure evokes Māori creation stories with arms reaching up to Ranginui, the sky-father, and feet grounded in Papatūānuku, mother Earth. In title and composition, the figure also recalls the icon Zealandia – the daughter of Britannia, used in C19th NZ heraldry and statuary: an emblem of co-governance and a tool of colonisation. Classically staged on a pedestal of Italian stone, the sculpture’s abstract figure asserts new ratios which unravel the 'perfect proportions' of Leonardo Da Vinci's Renaissance Vitruvian Man. Reflecting the median proportions of women from every Continent, Zealandia’s geometry carves a new genetic blueprint – proposing intersectional diversity as the ideal form.