Rose Meyer

Quarried, Silverpoint on Fabriano, originally 2000 x 1410mm cut to 100 x 100mm

I find Tāmaki Makaurau’s volcanic landscape fascinating, not only in its history of explosive force and molten rock that formed the hills and valleys in which I live, but also in the contour lines that make up the topographical maps seen and measured via satellite. Their twisting lines reveal a landscape that has been altered from its geological beginnings, some quarried away piece by piece till flat, others hidden beneath bodies of water.

Here satellite contour maps of each of Tāmaki Makaurau’s volcanoes have been centred on a single point, their peaks and troughs existing all together at a single location.

This drawing has been cut into 280 10 x 10mm squares echoing the quarrying  of many of the volcanoes themselves. As these fragments disperse, much like the rock taken from the volcanoes, they will scatter to unknown locations and become part of other places.