This large scale cyanotype on canvas that flanks the entrance subtly involves leaves from the Kermedec Island nīkau. Collecting the leaf involved asking local shop owners who had frontage trees if they would mind me culling the odd branch. Most didn't seem to mind and clarified that the Auckland Council owned and maintained the trees. As mentioned in other works I use this particular nīkau to reference the stopover of the Mataatua midway at Rangitāhua prior to landing in Aotearoa. The banana leaf from Rarotonga, which I cultivate, is also used in the title piece 'He Mauri' to reference another portion of the Mataatua's origins and its journey.