The Seven Sisters are prominent peaks on the undulating wall of the volcanic crater that forms Lyttelton Harbour. This wall – a geographical feature known generically as a ‘caldera’ because of its resemblance to a Spanish cauldron, or cooking pot – dominated the view from the studio in which Lonnie Hutchinson worked when she made this work. Sista7 is Hutchinson’s personal response to the mass and grandeur of this natural landscape – ‘my story, my myth’. Cut from building paper, the delicate, interlaced patterns envelop the ancient and solid mountain forms like mists.
(Brought to Light, November 2009)

Purchased, 2003
Reproduced with permission
Black building paper
2003/36.a-g
2003

Collection tags

biomorphic abstraction, mountains, patterns (design elements), triangles (polygons)