Paua is the Maori word for abalone - a giant clam slowly opening in anticipation of something to be revealed. It pursues that moment where the precise distribution of mass, form and space activate the sculpture – a creative engineering that aims to imbue a sense of aerial lightness. Inspired by observation of pattern and form in the natural world and spatially activated by the distribution of its mass, Paua embodies movement and anticipation – a sense of unfolding, of unwrapping. |
