Every piece of Aotearoa is politically charged but the art trail lies on a landscape with a peculiar political economy. Epsom is famously the most conservative electorate and is made up of a collection of some of New Zealand’s wealthiest suburbs. The natural environment, at the centre of the art trail, is surrounded by encroaching development, competing land grabs, and an increasingly inflamed debate on the "housing crisis". In the middle of all of this is a spattering of private and high decile schools. The land itself is political and so too are its younger inhabitants. School is a place of essential learning but also a place of prestige, status, competition, gossip, scandal and intrigue. Teenage rebellion has the potential for crucial identity formation but could also land you in the papers if you’re not careful. The environment is coloured with adolescent intensity, but also becomes a playground for riotous exaltation.