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Shooting for the stars: Reuben Paterson's dazzling crystal waka is finally unveiled

Joanna Wane
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Senior Feature Writer Lifestyle Premium·Canvas·
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Artist Reuben Paterson talks to Joanna Wane about omens, Aussies and navigating a pathway to the future.

It was just a week before the grand unveiling when the news came through from Australia. The waka had missed the boat.

A 10m-high sculpture made from hundreds of iridescent chandelier crystals and weighing almost a tonne, it was stranded on land in one of eight containers left behind on the wharf, a casualty of the shipping disruptions caused by Covid-19.

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