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Aw, bless their little aerosol-coated hearts
Behind the scenes
Let it not be said that Christchurch's vandals, ahem, street artists, lack a sense of community spirit.
Regular readers might recall my blog on the Christchurch City Council's attempts to brighten the hearts of quake-affected residents by ensuring that their street-side liquid waste collection units came in the ocularly-soothing shade of Mist Green. Over the Christmas break, I was reassured to find that such altruistic tendancies are not confined to the CCC, as our local graffiti brigade made it clear that festive spirit - and creative spelling - are alive and well in the Garden* City.
*(dying off nicely, thanks for asking)
Graffiti on chemical toilet disposal unit, St Albans, Christchurch.
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Another Brick In The Wall
Coming across an undamaged, fully standing, curved brick wall in the battered eastern suburbs is something of a rarity.
My Favourite
My Favourite
I’ve been continually fascinated by the plethora of creative interventions inserted into the wasted post-quake city. A number of works have offered sharp reminders that what we have been witnessing in the past five years is not normal.
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Curator Felicity Milburn remembers five years and 101 installations in a gallery without walls.
