Entering into the site and assessing the growth of the Hokataka that now stand about eleven meters in height. In 1971 each tree flanking the field at Fred Ambler Lookout was about two meters in height. I wonder what consideration was taken of this growth at Signals time of construction. Now encroaching into the form, one of the trees is disrupting the sculptures structural integrity and sign. I can now engage with this relationship, making space to play within the merging relations this site embodies.

Although solipsistic in nature, the consideration of self and other is present, I can not say my freedom to act is without relation to another. I must consider how my actions effect another, but how should that act be pursued? What is going on when a freedom is actioned? An action then becoming an event in time to direct further questioning, a sort of layering or ‘stuffing’ that come to define that event.

In thinking of freedom to act and consideration of others, Simone de Beauvoir comes to mind and the descriptions of self reflection, or revisitation of past actions as a means to unpack, deconstruct them in an effort to bring forward questions of intent.

The Auckland City Council have cut down the sections of the Hokataka that were beginning to push into Signals, a curious moment of request and action taken by municipal contractors. Growth is still imminent but the actioned request takes into account what has come before, the tree and sculpture sharing space without one imposing in on the other.