“Alphabeti is a galvanized sheet-box construction using pop rivets. The sculpture’s form intertwines and wraps around itself. Upon this letter loop is a random sequence of alphabet letters.

“Alphabeti is viewer-dependent: meaning is not inherent in the work. What the sculpture means depends on who looks at it. Language is a central mechanism of the justice system.”

Source: Wellington High Court, Artworks Catalogue (6-page typed and printed document produced by the High Court).

This work is one of a set of artworks commissioned for the Wellington Te Whanganui-a-Tara High Court in 1992 by an artworks panel consisting of members of the judiciary, the Department of Justice, the Māori community and the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council.