Raurangi by Jon Freeland

"Another time, another day" or "some place, some other time" (to look backward or forward).

To artist and carver Jon Freeland, this translation was symbolic of a library, a building which contains resources about history and resources predicting the future.

Commissioned by Mrs L.C. Stevens in 1967 to create a sculpture for Te Ao Mārama - Mount Maunganui Library, from a tōtara log found on the local beach by Mr T. Quayle.

The two-metre, 68 kilogram, figure has a single torso, with two heads in profile, looking the different directions, and took Jon around six weeks to complete.

Read more in the Bay of Plenty Times article 'Beached log carved for Mount library' below.

Raurangi, photographed in 2007 by Vision Media for Tauranga City Council.

Te Ao Mārama - Tauranga City Libraries Photo 21-1893

Jon Freeland with his carving Raurangi, from a log of beached Totara, commissioned and given to the Mount Maunganui Public Library by Mrs. L. C. Stevens.

Te Ao Mārama - Tauranga City Libraries Photo gca-11965

Beached log carved for Mount library. Bay of Plenty Times, 8 June 1967