Remains

Sandy Connon

30 March – 26 April 2025

2025, Found glass, rope, builders paper, screen print

In the bush behind Savage Street, Auckland the heavy leaf mulch holds domestic shards from a Victorian era dump site.

Some treacherously sharp, others smoothed by time and fire.

A sense of instability and heightened awareness pervades in the unstable ground, in the dim dappled light of the bush.

Mature trees have grown tall with embedded shards of the past, strangely out of place.

State houses were built on Savage Street between 1938-45, the street was named after Michael Joseph Savage, the first Labour Prime Minister of NZ, they were built with a sense of community in mind, which remains today, precariously though, as they are on the Government’s radar for high density housing.

I find proximity of these classic homes with the discarded bottles some dating back to 1865 poignant.

Who drank from those bottles.

Where did they live.

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