At first glance, then, a constructed swamp might look like a standard instance of White Guilt – like an attempt to atone (or, at least, to be seen atoning) for crimes committed against the landscape in the name of colonisation. But where we sought redemption there is plague and pestilence: Manawa reserve is a cesspit of avian botulism, littered with pukeko carcasses – their vital fluids seeping into the infill. Hence, this synthetic ecosystem looks more like a monstrous front, like a frag...
