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Maybe it's time for a cheer-up.
We were lucky here in Chch to be visited by Michael Parekowhai's amazing bronze bull-and-piano sculptures from the installation On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.
They sat on the corner of Madras and Armagh Sts, on a bumpy uneven demolition site among the remains of the central city.
I saw them on their final weekend, on a sunny Winter afternoon. There were throngs of well-dressed people milling about admiring the artworks, chatting together, taking photos of each other with the bulls, and generally having a lovely time.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to
bird!
levitating goldfinch, lovely! Who needs wings?
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to
Monet or mon drain…
Haha, very good. :-)
Hope your household's keeping its feet dry, Ian?
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to
(if you click on the photo you’ll get the closeup of the lamb)
Warning: adult themes! :-)
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Is it naive to ask if preventive detention was considered?
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to
Looks like i may have to rethink my enjoyment of the Maori chief in the dining room …..
I’ve been wondering how I would feel having one of my ancestors on a tea-towel, and I think not good. On a poster might be OK, if it was respectful. But not as an “example of a type”, ew.
Hebe:
The generic Maori maiden is rather different
But surely this is also a portrait of an unknown woman, and only generic because un-named?