This video work is part of a larger project called Nirun, the Thai word for eternal – a timespan that connects ancient histories and future possibilities. In it, Sorawit Songsataya collapses the distances between times and places, imagining layered relationships between materials and species, learning and loss, home and elsewhere.

The artist would like to thank Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou, Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki, Te Rūnanga o Moeraki and Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu for their permission and support in working with Ōamaru limestone and filming in Central Otago, and acknowledges mana whenua of Kāti Māhaki ki Makaawhio, Poutini Ngāi Tahu, as kaitiaki of the takiwā where the kōtuku nest.