Crux-Southern Cross

Sculpture in serpentine & nephrite jade/ pounamu featuring diamond polished water bowl.

This 200 million year old serpentine/ Nephrite boulder from the wild west coast of the South Island represents heaven (crux) & earth & the way that the natural world manifests itself...

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This extremely hard complex rare rock is cut& polished, using stone on stone, by the worlds hardest & most valuable mineral, diamonds...
The flat highly polished surface represents the oceans & the raw " mountainous", landmass represents Aotearoa. Throughout the aeons the oldest battle of nature, erosion, glaciation, &wind have reeked havoc upon the land, where water, ice, & wind haves sculptured & shaped this natural landscape, as we know it today...
Inbedded in the "polished" flat stone surface lies a deep hemispherical highly polished water bowl, which reflects both the sky & the heaven's both day & night, always & forever....

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"As above, so below"...this ancient quotes significance timely, as everything that happens on earth is also of happening on an astral plane. What happens in a higher realm or plane of existence, also happens In an earthly realm of existence...

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Throughout day & night the heavenly bodies, the sun & stars are reflected in the "Oceans" water bowl & when viewed seam to defy the senses. They appear to hover in the bowl in a holographic shimmering reflection on or below the surface....

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