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Speaker 1: Rakaya has got it salmon back. The twelve meters statue

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Speaker 1: back prior to place after an almost three hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars makeover. The man behind it original sculptor Phil Price.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Oh, good morning, Luke.

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Speaker 1: Looks great. You're happy with the outcome?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course it's it looks well. It was. It

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Speaker 2: was a pleasure to do it, and it's yeah, I

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Speaker 2: think I think it looks wonderful. It ever looked.

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Speaker 1: It does look a little different. I feel did you

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Speaker 1: did you use some different coloring or something.

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Speaker 2: Well, I was a couple of I was keen to that.

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Speaker 2: The it's had three paint jobs, I think from the

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Speaker 2: new paint job thirty five years ago, and then there

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Speaker 2: was another one done in the round. It might have

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Speaker 2: been about two thousand and nine or something like that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and that was a bit rump. That wasn't all over,

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Speaker 2: but it was. It was a bit rumpty really, and yes,

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Speaker 2: and it was a bit dark, and yeah, so I

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Speaker 2: was keen to. I was keen to revisit it and

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Speaker 2: give it, you know, make it a bit more silvery,

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Speaker 2: make it a bit more salmon like, because it wasn't

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Speaker 2: looking particularly semon like. And yeah, and achieved all of that,

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Speaker 2: and it was it was It was kind of nice

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Speaker 2: to revisit the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Imagine you're putting the mahi, yourself and the team. It

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Speaker 1: was documented on the news a few weeks back. Remind

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Speaker 1: us of what's gone into this reinstatement. Do you do

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Speaker 1: you keep track of your mannails?

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Speaker 2: Well, while while New Zealand it was holiday at Christmas time,

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Speaker 2: I had a team of at times I think we

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Speaker 2: might have been ten of us. We were in there,

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Speaker 2: standing us and getting to the bottom of all of

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Speaker 2: the little bits and pieces of water damage, but not

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Speaker 2: into the not into the main structure of the thing,

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Speaker 2: and just you know, it all has to be done right.

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Speaker 2: It's a bit like restoring a boat hole. There's no

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Speaker 2: point in covering up anything that's going to come back

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Speaker 2: and bite you.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, how nervous were you yesterday? We had

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Speaker 1: some wonderful local firms, the lights of Tarbottoms and Eshburton Crane,

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Speaker 1: you know, getting the back in place. But I imagine

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Speaker 1: it's but like when you're driving a cake to the

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Speaker 1: a MP show and you've got it sitting in the

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Speaker 1: back seat and you're like an absolute nana. Got to

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Speaker 1: take every corner with such precision where there where there

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Speaker 1: beads are sweat.

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Speaker 2: At any point corners between christ you well.

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Speaker 1: That's good, Thank goodness for that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, you said it. You've got it right.

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Speaker 2: The wonderful team, you know, and and all of those

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Speaker 2: guys were terrific. You know that I didn't need to

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Speaker 2: in terms of the logistics of getting it down and

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Speaker 2: moving it and so forth. I was, you know, made

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Speaker 2: a few couple of cradles, but other than that, just

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Speaker 2: handed it to the to the experts. And you and

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Speaker 2: I on that on.

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Speaker 1: That score, nice am I correct and pointing out this

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Speaker 1: was your first ever big sculpture, it thinks thirty years

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Speaker 1: ago when the Rakai lines approached you. Was this your

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Speaker 1: first big.

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Speaker 2: Job thirty five years ago. I was a young man

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Speaker 2: and we all I was keen, and and yes it

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Speaker 2: was my first wow, public sculpture, and you know, and

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Speaker 2: that's it's been. It's been, you know, a little bit

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Speaker 2: emotional in a way to go back because and rather

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Speaker 2: night to see the quality because it's it's in good nick,

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Speaker 2: you know, and and then just to you know, go

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Speaker 2: over and over in my mind the relationships that were

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Speaker 2: built up with a lot of the local It was

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Speaker 2: the Rakaia Lions Club, largely made up of local farmers,

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Speaker 2: most of whom have passed now, who were wonderful gentlemen.

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Speaker 2: And you know, it was the whole process in every way,

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Speaker 2: you know, dealing with people making proposals, getting sponsorship, all

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Speaker 2: of the technicalities and logistics, a big involved process for me.

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Speaker 2: And then you know, I rather I rather liked the

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Speaker 2: idea that you know that we're all still proud of it,

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Speaker 2: you know, And I did go on and have a

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Speaker 2: bit of a career making sculpture around the around the world,

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Speaker 2: you know, And so it's been it's been a full circle.

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Speaker 1: Watching pair here. Well you have created one hundreds. So

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Speaker 1: I've got a couple more quick questions here. Your website

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Speaker 1: pictures you as a kinetic sculptor because you're behind the

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Speaker 1: likes of the zip vromitter. I think it's called in Wellington,

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Speaker 1: that big red thing that moves by the airport and

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Speaker 1: and moving things up in Christian Did you ever consider

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Speaker 1: making the salmon something that moved like it was swimming

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Speaker 1: in the winds. That would be cool, you know what.

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Speaker 2: Originally, I think the original proposal had it suspended over

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Speaker 2: State Highway once.

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Speaker 1: Really yeah, I can see that getting easily ticked off

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Speaker 1: these days.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, no, that's right. I mean, I I I

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Speaker 2: I have made you moving sculptures for the last twenty

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Speaker 2: five odd years and they are you know, I've kept

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Speaker 2: it really simple with you know, just worked with the

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Speaker 2: physics of wind balance, good mechanics and form, and you know,

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Speaker 2: made a bit of a made a bit of a name,

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Speaker 2: I suppose, And yeah, no, I've had a I've had

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Speaker 2: A've had a charmed life lot.

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Speaker 1: We don't need the frills and require it is what

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Speaker 1: it is. And finally, is it true that we've caught

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Speaker 1: you in the nick of time? Are you retiring?

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Speaker 2: Ah? Well, what does that mean? Well, I'm I'm I'm no, No,

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Speaker 2: I don't think a man like me can retire, but

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Speaker 2: I but I'm I'm changing a little bit the way

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Speaker 2: I do things. You know, I've been pretty ambitious with

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Speaker 2: big projects, you know, in my work laugh. And I'm

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Speaker 2: not saying I can't keep doing that, but I I yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just changing. I mean, I think when

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Speaker 2: I reflect on what's most important to me, and it

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Speaker 2: is it is to be continually creative in a way,

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Speaker 2: and so I'll just I'll keep going, keep going in

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Speaker 2: some fish and