With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
"Ahu" are stone platforms on which many moai sit. There are 313 known ahu and 125 of these carry moai. The biggest, Ahu Tongariki is 220 m (720 ft), and had the most (15) and tallest moai.
I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... That he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.
