 As the images of the hand form rotate in the photographs, the roses move from red to orange to yellow.The 80 c-type prints in "The Homely" were taken over a period of several years, on trips around New Zealand and Australia.In this work, Hipkins explored the idea of nationhood, and the signs and symbols used to express a sense of belonging to a place, especially, as he described it, 'in the turbulent wake of British Imperialism'.