Treaty Glasses
Medium: New Zealand jade and Carrara marble
Dimensions: 37 x 132 x 135 mm
Year: 2004
Sold from SPAN Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. This piece is now in the Cordyline collection. Go to the links page.
Background: The words Maori and Pakeha are etched into the surface and filled with gold paint. Pakeha is upon the traditional stone of Maori and vice-versa. This piece symbolises the cross cultural swaps that occur post the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Both the words signifying the two Treaty partners are inventions born from contact between the two races: neither word was used pre-European contact. The hyphen that simultaneously joins and separates each word is derived from Francis Pound's concept on the space between.