Cage I  is a cross-section of the negative space of the Papua New Guinean Hornbill Carving (1880), displayed at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK. The piece uses negative space to convey the ‘missing half’ of the carving; its missing cultural history and connections that are lost due to colonial enterprise. It is a reflection and mirror image of how many Indigenous objects like these remain missing today in their cultures as they stay colonised in British institutions. Its visual similarity to an object displayed in The Natural History Museum reflects the historicisation of living cultures, a narrative conveyed through museum curation that avoids modern issues of cultural repatriation. The visualisation of the negative space of the artifact through a plaster cast mirrors the negative space the object inhabits today in Northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, a space that remains empty as the Indigenous artifact sits in a British institution.

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