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Toroa (sculpture)

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captures "the paradox of flight in that winged ponderousness and spine muscularity of the bird heaving its half ton-ness off the ground in a ruffle of massive feathers."
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The work stands 4 metres (13 ft) in height, and is created from large cuts of wood arrayed so as to represent the wings of an albatross (
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timber, which was prone to weathering, and was reconstructed in South American
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in October 2020, after the original macrocarpa was replaced with purpleheart.
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on an inhabited mainland. Academic Peter Leech has commented that
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This article about a New Zealand building or structure is a
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Peter Nicholls
timber
Northern royal albatross
Dunedin
Coordinates
45°52′46″S 170°30′23″E / 45.879386°S 170.506443°E / -45.879386; 170.506443
Peter Nicholls
Otago Harbour
Dunedin
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Māori
Otago Peninsula
royal albatross

macrocarpa
purpleheart
Re-created sculpture spreads its wings
Otago Daily Times
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stub
expanding it
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Stub icon
stub
expanding it
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