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Multiple arms of pōhutukawa root from a fallen tree in Northland radiate outward from a shared centre, their curves echoing and answering one another spontaneously. The base is a piece of Greek limestone bearing the ancient Newgrange spiral — one of humanity's oldest symbols of life, renewal, and continuity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eLife Force\u003c\/em\u003e works speak to the unseen energy that animates all living things — the deep pulse that unites the visible and invisible, the personal and the universal. It is both what gives form and what moves through it. When a sculpture carries life force well, it creates a subtle but powerful exchange: of presence, aliveness, form and flow as one, simplicity and inner calm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat defines \u003cem\u003eLife Force 6\u003c\/em\u003e is its harmony. No single arm dominates — each one moves in its own way, yet all are in conversation, curving in similar ways — echoing each other, in harmony. 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A pōhutukawa root from a fallen tree in Northland rises from a polished South Island river stone, its curves stacked and contained — vertical, composed, and quietly powerful. Carved into the stone is the ancient triple spiral from Newgrange, one of humanity's oldest symbols of mind, body, spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eLife Force\u003c\/em\u003e works speak to the unseen energy that animates all living things — the deep pulse that unites the visible and invisible, the personal and the universal. It is both what gives form and what moves through it. When a sculpture carries life force well, it creates a subtle but powerful exchange: of presence, aliveness, form and flow as one, simplicity and inner calm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat distinguishes \u003cem\u003eLife Force 7\u003c\/em\u003e is its verticality. 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A dramatically compressed and winding pōhutukawa root from a fallen tree in Northland sleuths around a stone from an Auckland volcano. The stone sets up the composition with its brooding presence: its unyielding strength, dark colour, and overhang. And the root enthusiastically embraces all that, springing forward full of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eLife Force\u003c\/em\u003e works speak to the unseen energy that animates all living things — the deep pulse that unites the visible and invisible, the personal and the universal. It is both what gives form and what moves through it. When a sculpture carries life force well, it creates a subtle but powerful exchange: of presence, aliveness, form and flow as one, simplicity and inner calm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFearlessness is the powerful feeling of \u003cem\u003eLife Force 8\u003c\/em\u003e. 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