Painted Boxes: Monique Endt
If it’s Wednesday, there must be a box. This one is found in Beach Road, Te Atatu Peninsula, outside the Hospice (map). The artist is Monique Endt who has a fair number of boxes to her credit. Visit her website.
April 7, 2010
March 10, 2010
Painted Boxes: Abdul Jawad
Painted Boxes: Abdul Jawad
This composite picture of a traffic control box is designed to confuse, but I am sure you will make sense of my composition quickly. The artist, Abdul Jawad, shows us youthful street scenes, with two girls patiently waiting at the pedestrian crossing just off the footpath. Nice touch that he has even included the button for them to push.
This box is at the intersection of Te Atatu Road and Edmonton Road in Te Atatu South (map). There used to be another box by Abdul Jawad next to Parr’s Park in Henderson, but whilst the transformer is still in its place, the decoration is no longer there (maybe due to tagging, or possibly a new transformer was needed – highlighing the transitory nature of this artform. Added 24/03/10: Julie Nash, Community Arts Coordinator, Watakere City, informed me that the transformer fell victim to a road accident). I have only one side of this box, showing a game of kilikiti being played.
Abdul Jawad: Kilikiti
February 9, 2010
Geometry in Te Atatu
Möbius Gate
This Möbius Gate (2002) by John Lyall plays with the Möbius strip known to all of us from childhood days. It is found at Te Atatu Peninsula’s Jack Pringle Park (map).
Since the Möbius strip has only one side, but all known construction materials are two-sided, something has to give…
Read more about the Möbius strip.
