Parliament House Structure 1 - is constructed entirely from recycled marble from the Government house building, which was removed during earthquake strengthening in the 1990's. Many of the surfaces in this sculpture, show marks of the original stonemasons and builders from when the marble was quarried in Takaka and brought to Wellington to become part of Parliament House in the 1920s.

Each of the stacked marble blocks in this totemic work, have two heavily worked sides - that have been carved, shaped and polished by the artist - with two sides/faces still exhibiting the authenticity of the condition of the marble as it was found, and in some cases’ with early markings from the original stonemasons (from the 1920’s).

 Chauncey is interested in how this work can ask questions about how we assign significance to a material, place and identity. Does material lose its value or identity when it is moved, appropriated, destroyed or does its meaning still carry significance, as a vestige of our history somehow? Can a material be a signifier of our relationship to place and can a material ‘hold time’ and become a storyteller in and of itself?