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Located between the Gallery car park and Gloucester Street, this poetic wall work explores Natalia Saegusa’s interest in the possibilities and insufficiencies of language. Alluding to the way a sense of intimacy and belonging can be concentrated within particular words or artefacts – and how slippages across time, language, culture and space can result in the loss, distortion and addition of meaning – Saegusa’s original text was first translated into Te Reo Māori and then reinterpreted in English by Corban Te Aika of Ngāi Tahu. In an action Saegusa has likened to a cursor moving across a computer screen or an eye scanning a page, as each viewer passes through the space they piece the fragmented text together into a new order.