journal

on August 15 it snowed in High Street, downtown Auckland, amongst other things

might a new dark age be announced by lack of colour? simply by a lack of colourful and joyful enough language to describe it? by a failure to acknowledge or synthesise, in time, of course, advances made ahead of it? 40 years ahead? by an ideologically ins

vague city, trademark terrain: the development of the Viaduct introduces a little desert into the city, that is, an inhospitable and empty space, a blank with advertising hoardings, in which blank Auckland’s identity as a host city for the World C___ is r

series natural, temporal, gastronomic, cosmetic

a fairytale prelude, warm asphalt, small clouds like turds, other snaps

“Why does everything have to be a contest with you?” “Why does everything have to be a victory with you?”

pilgrimage to Barry Brickell’s Driving Creek Potteries & Railway, Coromandel Peninsula – Barry is pictured nude, a beer bottle in one hand, or a wine bottle, depending on the time of day, a hammer in the other hand, and a spade, and in the other a kumara-