Luminous and golden, the Billy button orbs seem to hover from a distance. This upspringing of the Australian native flower on such a large scale, is a joyous and whimsical tribute to the bright yellow wild flower; prompting us to examine the grasses around us a little more closely.

Spalding crafted the polished brass Billy button heads in an Austrian foundry in Innsbruck under the guidance of a master blacksmith. The regularly ridged concrete reinforcing rods, which make up the flower stems, form an industrial counterpoint to the handmade brass spheres and repeat the mottled patterning of the wild grasses surrounding them.

This correspondence to the natural world anchors them to the site, and mirrored in the pond below, these Billy buttons seemingly become natural, fantastical outcroppings, magnified by growth. The lone outlier on the small island of its own has seemingly migrated, spread from its home as if caught by the wind; and it is easy to picture them springing-up on the shore.