hris Booth is obviously exhausted after the completion in December of his latest work, . This kinetic sculpture, sitting on land at the entrance to Kerikeri township, comprises 120 boulders suspended from a 15-metrehigh pole, capped by a birds’ head sculpture and has proved the most challenging work Booth has undertaken in a career that covers more than half a century. Not only was it challenging to design and construct, but it also attracted more public opprobrium than possibly any other public artwork in Aotearoa’s history. During construction was twice subject to destructive attacks by vandals, while Booth and his team received plenty of verbal abuse. This behaviour was seemingly fuelled by social media misinformation and a spectacularly shabby piece of TVNZ News reporting in
