[3]: 34 First shown at the Denis Cohn Gallery in Auckland, the work is made up of 365 individual pieces, one for each day or the year, including the forms of cats, clothes pegs, tuatara, sphinxes and a small temple.
[6] The installation consisted of three major elements, centred on the form of a giant woman laid on the floor made from local basalt stone, accompanied by three urns filled with fresh flower arrangements and 52 clay masks of skulls, lit with coloured lights.
The baffling animation of the face does this as much as anything: but also crucial are Cornish's aesthetically rigorous selection and organisation of her component parts an importantly (although an alternative to an original idea) her use of the magenta-pink neon lights, which cast their hazy glow from floor level up over the skulls.
This characteristically modern lighting form creates the necessary tension with the other elements of the piece and makes for an effective dialog with the minimalist style of the gallery space.
[8] In 1984, prompted by her interest in Neolithic artifacts, Cornish visited Silbury Hill and Avebury Henge in Wiltshire, and in 1988 she travelled to the megalithic mounds at Newgrange in Ireland to observe the winter solstice.
In 2014 a major survey of Cornish's work between 1982 and 2013, titled 'Mudlark', was organised by MTG Hawke's Bay and also shown at the Gus Fisher Gallery in Auckland.