Onetahua | Farewell Spit | Stone Scatter

A walk on Onetahua / Farewell spit. March 17 2026 as part of a survey looking for an invasive sea spurge.

Amongst the deep sand dunes, small patches of exposed pebbles. Eroded from the Southern alps, transported by rivers to the Tasman Sea, moved northwards along the West Coast by longshore drift with the Westland current and deposited on Onetahua / Farewell spit. The stone pebble patches are buried and then exposed by tidal surges.

The image becomes data. Stone positions generate seed points. The algorithm maps the spatial logic between them. Point count determined by the stone count. Grid density set by the day of the year. Day #76.

7 — The artist’s will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion. His willfulness may only be ego.