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The series of paste ups were drawn directly from the book and celebrate the sentiments of self-care and care for others, creating small moments of reflection around the city with their messages. This image, of a figure sat in a window sill gazing at an infinite starry sky, is found at the Arts Centre, and serves to remind passersby that uncertainty is natural, that \"nobody else knows what they are doing either\".", "image": "artwork/IMG_20191117_101852.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG_20191117_101852-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,977,2736,2671", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": "Reuben Woods", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6296475912695 -43.53145701945277)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "all-of-this-is-for-you", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [518], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1116, "fields": {"category": 39, "title": "The Little Street Art Festival", "commission_date": "November 2023", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "This tiny spray can, embedded in the ground of Worcester Boulevard, is an acknowledgement of the first ever Little Street Art Festival - like a visible time capsule buried in the ground... 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The bright gold and pink elements of the letterforms provide a bolt of energy, bursting from pieces of brickwork, while the majestic tui adds a sense of calm and poise. \r\nPainted on an exposed wall along Worcester Boulevard, this painting was produced while Ling was visiting New Zealand in early 2023. During the visit, Ling was also a featured artist in SHIFT: Urban Art Takeover at Canterbury Museum, the landmark exhibition that bid farewell to the iconic institution before major redevelopment. Ling was one of a number of international artists included in the massive line-up, painting Nexxi, a portrait of his niece in the Level Four storeroom.", "image": "artwork/IMG20230213124746.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG20230213124746-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "566,0,3530,1834", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6298274686418 -43.53064768157372)", "validated": true, "street": "Worcester Boulevard", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "none", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [569], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1098, "fields": {"category": 39, "title": "Diminished Returns (Trauma and Rebirth)", "commission_date": "November 2023", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Dark Ballad\u2019s haunting woodcut \u2018tablets\u2019 reflect on \u014ctautahi, utilizing the gothic aesthetic of the city as a starting point to reveal ideas about our long and recent histories, from the impact of colonialism to the earthquakes\u2019 destruction. Inspired by traditions of European woodblock printing, the finely detailed works are also uniquely local, using Te Reo in place of the Latin or English phrasing, reflecting the local narrative and the artist\u2019s own Ng\u0101i Tahu heritage. The artist utilises the poetic descriptive quality of Reo to draw the viewer into a more evocative experience. The tablets are ominous and striking, intricately detailed and evocative, positioned in a quiet reflective space within the iconic Arts Centre, where sweeping change and historical lineage are equally evident. Inviting viewers to experience the works in isolation, where solitude is a vital part of the encounter, the works are thoughtful and affecting, highlighting the ability of small works to have a big impact. \r\n\r\nThe three pieces tell the story of \u014ctautahi from colonization, through the earthquakes, and finally evoking the city in its current form, half destroyed, half rebuilt, the rubble and gravestones representing the loss and trauma it took to get here. The Reaper figure is not simply a metaphor for death and destruction, but also for change, as it is often used in tarot. The figure appears in each of the tablets, marking a new era like a harbinger of change for the landscape. \r\n\r\nThe first tablet, T\u0101mitanga, refers to \u2018oppression\u2019 and in this case \u2018colonization\u2019, the Reaper standing atop the remains of M\u0101ori carvings and marae carvings as he overlooks a landscape filled with European Catholic architecture, devoid of any of the native buildings or structures that came before. His cross sceptre further emphasises the impact of colonisation and religion on Tangata Whenua.\r\n\r\nThe second tablet, R\u016b Whenua, the shaking of the land, evokes the damage and drastic change the earthquakes brought upon the city. The Reaper walks into a dilapidated gothic building reminiscent of the Cathedral leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. The pristine colonial landscape he oversaw in the first tablet is crumbling, overtaken by nature.\r\n\r\nThe third and final tablet, P\u0101mamae (trauma or grief) reflects upon the lasting effects and generational trauma of the first two tablets. The Reaper once again overlooks the landscape littered with rubble and ruins. There are reminders of loss and change throughout in the form of destroyed buildings and graves. In the distance, what was once traditional Maori architecture followed by colonial buildings is now a gentrified skyline of plain, blocky generic looking buildings. 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{"category": 39, "title": "Drips", "commission_date": "December 2024", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Created for the 2024 Little Street Art Festival, Smeagol's Drips are testament to the ability of art to subtly surprise by subverting the expectations of our surroundings.\r\nMaking use of the Neo Gothic style of the Christchurch Arts Centre - Te Matatiki Toi Ora's architectural setting, Smeagol's works are at once strangely familiar and unsettling - as if the stone of the buildings was melting and oozing out of crevices - a suggestion of something unseen affecting our visible world.\r\nAnd yet, despite the molten stone appearance, the works are actually a light touch - made from cardboard, expanding foam and painted sand, manifestations of the artist's multi-faceted creative approach.\r\nLocated at various points throughout the Arts Centre, Smeagol's Drips are an understated surprise that reward inspection and attention, and in doing so, entice us with 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"smart_cities": true, "slug": "none", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [579], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 612, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": "Kaitiaki", "commission_date": "December 2017", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "One of ten murals from the YMCA's Street Prints Otautahi 2017.\r\n\r\n'Kaitaki' is Maori for 'the guardian' and this depiction of Ashleigh Sagar is meant as a symbol of protection to the city. \r\n\r\nThe bird on the right is a kingfisher or kotare and is found on the South Island where Christchurch is situated. \r\n\r\nThe owl on the left is called a ruru and they are sacred to Maori culture and synonymous with signs of warning. 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