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'Imagery'
is a series of picture galleries telling the visual stories of the New
Zealand Edge. To view: scroll over the montage, read description, and
click on thumbnail. When in gallery click on thumbnail for enlarged
image. |
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| Print
advertisments for NZEDGE. Appearances
in Cuisine and Pacific Way; NZ International Arts, Film,
and, Toast Wine and Food Festival programmes; NZ, UK, and Australian media;
and at Auckland
International Airport. |
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| "Texture: distinctive or identifying quality or character." This gallery takes the evocative approach to the NZ story. Sensory stimulation from paua shell to pohutukawa, corrugated iron to glass towers, kete to kai ... |
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| Face, demography, soul, canoe, character. Who is a New Zealander? "He aha te mea nui o te ao? "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata" [What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people]. |
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| Part one of two galleries traversing the topography of the island nation; unique whenua evolved by time and hand. Featuring the surface lay of the place, from its ancient split from the supercontinent Gondwanaland to the Sky Tower. |
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| Aotearoa:
located in the South Pacific (43°35'46"N 170°08'30"E)
on the edge of the planet. Sometimes so edgy we've fallen off, pre-Columbus
style. In this gallery map-makers and sub-editors prove our edge
status. |
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| "At
night we gathered on deck beneath the Southern Constellation. 'Our
arrangemant,' noted Mister Dixon. 'Our Sky'." Lloyd Jones,
The Book of Fame. A collection of sky-scapes from the land
of the long white cloud. |
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| What
are the visual icons of the New Zealand Edge? With buzzy bees (thankfully)
packed away in the glory box, this is our beginning of an answer. A
challenge born from biology, landscape, location and character. |
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| Motif
of the New Zealand Edge, the silver fern is potential unfurled
from nature - the organic curled pattern of the ponga tree's Koru.
From the All Blacks to Peter Snell 1964, the silver fern is the
execution of the promise. |
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| "New
Zealanders have, from time to time, felt the need to make an enlarged
statement about their presence in the world." Michael King.
The first gallery in a visual journey through the evolving parthenon of
nzedge heroes. |
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| CoverEdge
is a survey of global magazine covers featuring NZ and New Zealanders,
from Peter Jackson to the ANZACs, coming in under the radar to, as Tim
Finn sings, "glisten like a pearl, at the bottom of the world." |
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| Blow
up: "It is a fine city and nobly situated. A busy place, and
full of life and movement." Mark Twain. 20
pages of Wellington's contemporary creative culture breezing from
the South Seas to Milan in Italian style magazine Donna. |
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| Edge
attitudes are all around us. Two galleries of fringe interpretations
by book designers, typographers, writers and thinkers engaging the
edge metaphor in text and image; from the homegrown to long-haul
internationalism. |
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| An evolving survey
of our built landscape, from the egalitarian materialism of corrugated
steel roofing and painted timber weatherboards, to bachs, beehives, marae,
modernism, state housing and digital design. |
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| "New
Zealanders have, from time to time, felt the need to make an enlarged
statement about their presence in the world." Michael King.
The second gallery in a visual journey through the evolving parthenon
of nzedge heroes. |
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| Part two of two galleries traversing the topography of the island nation; unique whenua evolved by time and hand. Featuring the surface lay of the place, from its ancient split from the supercontinent Gondwanaland to the Sky Tower. |
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| A
continued survey of global magazine covers featuring NZ and New Zealanders,
from Peter Jackson to the ANZACs, coming in under the radar to, as Tim
Finn sings, "glisten like a pearl, at the bottom of the world." |
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