A tribute to Kaikoura in Wellington's Botanic Garden.

Massey University students have created a series of light installations for the summer season at the gardens.

School of Design senior lecturer Antony Nevin said one of them is a sequence of fish.

The installation is set up in one of the creeks at the garden and the fish spin as the water moves around them.

Nevin said it represented the sea life that was displaced in the November earthquake.

“They [students] kind of had this idea to some degree memorializing it but also keeping it present in people’s minds in Wellington because although we’ve been affected by the earthquake, it’s very much the buildings rather than the landscape.”

Nevin said the tens of fish and crayfish were made from an acrylic material.

“It’s a really kind of verdant green and it is lit by UV lights and the form of these things is almost like a little propeller so when it spins it becomes optically a three dimensional form.”