B.

Elliot Collins's series of video works, Goat Creek, illustrates an Otira landscape that has changed very little since van der Velden made his visits to the region in 1891 and 1893. In the endless impulsive energy, motion and sounds of the creek as it flows down the mountainside to join the Otira river, Collins captures a strong sense of the untouched natural wilderness that appealed so strongly to nineteenth-century colonial painters.