Changing Lanes and Morning Star

Changing Lanes is an annual art project bringing temporary art to the city’s urban spaces.
This project aims to create connections in the community, provide opportunities for artists and enhance public spaces while uplifting spirits. These projects reference the spaces’ unique heritage and use of pedestrian walking routes and intimate city business locations.
Celebrating this year’s theme of Happiness, artists have been asked to explore ideas of energy, exuberance, dynamism and strength – using bright colours and bold imagery, and to create an uplifting experience for all visitors!

Morning Star is a collection of photographic images and an ephemeral sculpture accessible via handheld devices and extended reality technology. The artwork features three colossal celestial spheres inspired by handmade earth sculptures, the planets Venus and Uranus, the giant star Betelgeuse, and the crystalline structures of ancient Aotearoa chalcedony stones. 

Floating above Auckland city center with the Waitemata Harbour as a backdrop, this new virtual sculpture in the artist’s series is enriched with a NASA-sourced soundscape. Morning Star serves as a nexus bridging earth, atmosphere, metaphysical, and cosmos. Named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty, and happiness, Morning Star embodies beauty, romance, creativity, and aesthetics, offering viewers an experience of inspiration, wonder and renewal.