absolute divide is a site-specific structure that forms part of the E:SCAPE - Sculpture in the Landscape exhibition curated by Kim Paton at the Waitakaruru Arboretum.  The installation comments on and reflects the artificial confiscation line or aukati that borders the top end of the sculpture park.  As a colonialist construct, this perfectly straight 43km line is an artificial line, yet it’s impact on both the landscape and on the people who occupy the land is very real.

Using 180 aerial digital 35mm photographs taken at an altitude of 3,000 feet along the length of the 43km border giving a 1:20,000 ratio, absolute divide is a digitally stitched constructed single image of the Waikato/Matamata-Piako border that has been printed as a single long thin strip directly onto eleven marine plywood panels @ 2,400 x 600mm.  The eleven panels were printed at ImageLab in Wellington on the Durst Rho 600 flat bed printer, which can print on almost any surface using weather-resistant solvent-free pigment-based eco-friendly inks.