Sculpture background

Come and walk through Rudderstone. O'Connor writes:

"The void is a rudder formation and symbolically memorialises our migrant cultures.
The rudder is a guiding principle, a device that steers us on our journey."

To walk thorugh Rudderstone "engages the body in a metaphor for the journey that the New World we live in challenges us to take"; the transition from old to new.

On the near side, black mica-flecked granite alludes to the night sky, and the Old World. On the far side - the New World - blue azul marble from Brazil (the sea) and white Carrara marble from Italy (the sky) together create a panorama that is in "the minds's eye of Pacific Coast dwellers and maritime voyager".

O'Connor, a Waiheke resident, often uses themes of migration and seafaring in his technically skillful and innovative stone sculptures.