In 2020 I began an epic adventure to photograph it in every skate bowl in the country with a giant 5mlong steel spoon. I lived in a van and slept alongside my spoonas I drove up and down the country. 

It all started atthe wellington skate bowl eating a supermarket pumpkin salad with a whiteplastic supermarket spoon. A friend and I were joking how funny it would be tobuild a Giant spoon and put it in the bowl. Months later it was still on mymind, I could actually do that, I thought to myself. About a year later Ieventually decided to do it. I made a small 1:1 maquette of a spoon net beforeemailing drawings off to a local laser cutter.  

With a giantsteel net in hand, I set about wrestling it into shape. I borrowed a friends LPG torch but quickly figured out I needed an oxy torch. After a serious amountof bending and welding along the seams it was time to heat and hammer the flatsections into a fully curved ladle. With a quickpaint job, I moved out of my flat, swapped my Ute for my friend’s Toyota HiAce andset off on my quest. 

I set off up thewest coast of the north island all the way up to Kaitaia. I spent 2-3 weeks in Auckland covering a huge amount of bowls. I found some bowls on old skateparkwebsites and through friends and strangers. Overall, the north island took me3-4 months before a one-month trip around the South Island.

The project atheart is a reason to adventure and to play. It is a play on scale, turning theeveryday into something slightly unexpected or even fanciful. It is my hope that the spoon allows the viewer to see the skate park as a breakfast or fruit bowl, something in a domestic scale or even to see the skate parks as a sculpture.  

Photo book coming soon