12 meters wide

Hikulagi Sculpture Park is a little treasure tucked silently amongst trees and foliage in a little out of the way place on the fringes of Niues Conservation area of Huvalu Forest and one of Niues pretty little villages called Liku.
Mark Cross Niue artist and founder of Hikulagi Sculpture Park has been doing great things there, Hikulagi is going through a bit of a beauty treatment and TLC ready for 350.org latest global online campaign 10/10/10
Niue the smallest Nation on Earth has just registered their event and its going well. Niue through Mark Cross and 350niue help are going to be having a lot of fun. Thats what 350.org called for in their invitation to join the campaign lets have a party.

from 350.org - Circle 10/10/10 on your calendar. That’s the date. The place is wherever you live. And the point is to do something that will help deal with global warming in your city or community.

We’re calling it a Global Work Party, with emphasis on both 'work' and 'party'. In Auckland, New Zealand, they’re having a giant bike fix-up day, to get every bicycle in the city back on the road. In the Maldives, they’re putting up solar panels on the President’s office. In Kampala, Uganda, they're going to plant thousands of trees, and in Bolivia they’re installing solar stoves for a massive carbon neutral picnic.

Since we've already worked hard to call, email, petition, and protest to get politicians to move, and they haven't moved fast enough, now it's time to show that we really do have the tools we need to get serious about the climate crisis.

On 10/10/10 we'll show that we the people can do this--but we need bold energy policies from our political leaders to do it on a scale that truly matters. The goal of the day is not to solve the climate crisis one project at a time, but to send a pointed political message: if we can get to work, you can get to work too--on the legislation and the treaties that will make all our work easier in the long run.

Niue will be going creative and adding onto a 12 meter wide 8 meter high sculptural framework interesting recyclable thrown away objects. You dont have to be an artist - The objectives is to have fun, to be creative, to use your imagination and be imaginative, team work, to at the end stand back and like what we see and in the least be contemplative to what was done and why

Hikulagi Sculptural park will be an ongoing masterwork in the making, it will grow through the years with the addition of other sculptures and people contributing to collaborative works on site. But the Sculptural form we will work towards on 350.org 10/10/10 will be a cornerstone or should I say touch wood for the whole of the Park complex. It will be a reminder always to mark the occasion but also a reminder to a throw away nation / world we have become.
Ira Merrifield:

From Hikulagi Sculpture Park Founder Mark Cross

The Hikulagi Sculpture Park, Niue The Hikulagi Sculpture Park was established in 1996 by members of the then Tahiono Arts Collective and in particular, Mark Cross (Niue), Mikoyan Vekula (Wellington), Sale Jessop (Niue), Al Posimani (Sydney) and Mario Cross (Auckland). Due to a variety of reasons it was put into hiatus for a decade. When it was conceived it was regarded as eccentric and visionary, but time has caught up with the idea and so it is now nearly mainstream. It is situated 2 kilometres South of the village of Liku, surrounded by primary rainforest but on a patch of land that has been rendered largely infertile by naive colonial horticultural methods. The initial purpose of the project was to create a venue for local and international contemporary artists to experiment with their individual and collective ideas, the main focus being on the expression of environmental concerns and how this interfaces with Homeland identity issues. The concept embraces the sentiment that an island is analogous to the Planet Earth and so is intended to foment debate on issues such as, pollution, climate change and human coexistence. Its intension is to do this through audience participation and the predominant utilisation of the found object, that is to say, the discarded inorganic refuse of a contemporary consumer society. The objectives include but are not restricted to: 4 To seek to provide a venue for discourse on the part that art can play in the evolution of humanity while highlighting the interrelationship between Homeland cultures and the environment. 4 To provide a place where the intrinsic and unique qualities of Niuean Culture and environment can be shared with the world while attracting attention to Niue through a medium/venue that is unique in the Pacific Islands. 4 To provide a forum for discussion on the re-interpretation of the meaning of progress. 4 To provide a venue for creative expression of not only artists but also the general public, visitors to Niue and most importantly, Niuean youth through audience participation 4 To create a venue for contemporary music in a tropical rainforest setting

The Sculpture space to date is being created through the voluntary labour of various individuals and businesses on Niue. Initial funding at its inception was provided by the Pacific Development and Conservation Trust as well as the then AusAid Cultural Fund. The current re-invigoration of the space is being supported by Reef Shipping and Niue

Tourism has also offered support.
Team Hikulagi, 19 Sept, 2010