Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Kaiapoi earthquake. Park next to iSite".
Wayne Youle's mural 'I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour' (2012), displayed in a Gap Filler site Sydenham.
Wayne Youle's mural 'I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour' (2012), displayed in a Gap Filler site Sydenham.
The Peacock Foutain in the Botanic Gardens, in the background is the Christchurch I-Site which has reopened in a potacom.
Wayne Youle's mural 'I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour' (2012), displayed in a Gap Filler site Sydenham.
Wayne Youle's mural 'I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour' (2012), displayed in a Gap Filler site Sydenham.
Wayne Youle's mural 'I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour' (2012), displayed in a Gap Filler site Sydenham.
Wayne Youle's mural 'I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour' (2012), displayed in a Gap Filler site Sydenham.
Wayne Youle's mural 'I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour' (2012), displayed in a Gap Filler site Sydenham.
Wayne Youle's mural 'I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour' (2012), displayed in a Gap Filler site Sydenham.
Wayne Youle's mural 'I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour' (2012), displayed in a Gap Filler site Sydenham.
Wayne Youle's mural 'I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour' (2012), displayed in a Gap Filler site Sydenham.
Wayne Youle's mural 'I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour' (2012), displayed in a Gap Filler site Sydenham.
Wayne Youle's mural 'I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour' (2012), displayed in a Gap Filler site Sydenham.
Wayne Youle's mural 'I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour' (2012), displayed in a Gap Filler site Sydenham.
A photograph of children's play equipment on the site of the Gap Filler office. In the background, a mural reads, "The things which I have seen I now can see no more".
When this building was first brought on site I spent a few hours removing the tape/paper that had been covering every window.
An elaborate graffiti tag sprayed on a wall beside a demolition site on Tuam Street. A collection of abandoned objects lie on the site. The photographer comments, "Graffiti spotted in the Christchurch earthquake red zone. What I liked was the odd mixture of bits and bobs around it".
A photograph of a pianist playing a painted piano. The piano is on the site of Wayne Youle's mural, 'I seem to have temporarily misplaced my sense of humour'.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Back in business: I-Site visitor centre manager Gwen Creek and staff member Laura Nelson prepare to open doors in Kaiapoi for the first time after the September 4 earthquake".
The Botanic Gardens, in the background is part of the Peacock Fountain, Christchurch I-site in a portacom on the left and the Art Centre. In the foreground is a wheelbarrow with some gardening equipment.
Demolition site and street art on a wall on Colombo Street, Sydenham. The work on the left is a Gap Filler project, Wayne Youle's "I seem to have temporarily misplaced my sense of humour " (2011), a shadow-board mural which depicts things lost during the earthquake.
A paint-splattered chair sits in front of a brightly-coloured piano painted with a cat's face, part of Gap Filler's Painted Piano Project. The photographer comments, "Gap filler I believe has created three sites filled with a stage area, seating and a piano. This one is at the Junction of Bower Ave and Marine Parade on the site of the demolished TJs Kazbah and opposite the now demolished Ozone. They have really brightened the corner up and we just need a few people to gather and have a nice night of it".
A bit of the now demolished QEII (Queen Elizabeth II) Park running track in the "Gap Filler" on the old Deka site in New Brighton (last occupied by a charity barn before a major fire and subsequent demolition).
A week ago this building was intact, now partially demolished. Will be an empty site in a week or two.
A digitally manipulated image of the damaged statue of Scott which was removed from its original site beside Worcester Boulevard for safekeeping. The photographer comments, "During the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand the statue of Robert Falcon Scott broke across the ankles and most of the statue came crashing to the ground. To commemorate a 100 years of association with Antarctica Christchurch council has laid out for viewing the statue in a prostrate position. I was lucky to encounter the statue before it was put into its glass display enclosure".
Another city walk around, this time with my brother-in-law from Auckland. Also went to the Quake City exhibition in the city organised by the Canterbury Museum. First fine day for a while. This bus is used as a chocolate restaurant, and is parked next to the Pallet Pavilion on the site of the old Park Royal Hotel.
Graffiti on a wooden wall depicts a child pointing at a site across the street and reads "I remember when the Kazbah was over there." The photographer comments, "A local street artist has commemorated Christchurch's deadliest earthquake. The anniversary is tomorrow. Where the photograph was taken was the site of the Ozone Hotel, which has now gone as well. For some of us who live and work in the East of Christchurch the earthquake was not what happened in the City as we were almost unaware of it. We had no water, toilets and most of all no electricity for weeks. For myself petrol was low and with tales of all the petrol stations on our side of town being damaged we could not take the chance of venturing out on severely damaged roads to find no petrol and the possibility of not getting home. We walked around and saw the damage that was local to us. TJ's Kazbah was one that stood out. A building that had a beauty with its round tower standing proud and always looked well kept - it was now collapsed. Its tower, which was once pointing towards the sky was laying on its side. It had kept its shape, but had a lightning shaped crack through it. The one thing that kept us feeling almost normal through the coming weeks was The Press our daily paper still being delivered even though the Press building and staff had suffered so badly themselves.
Text above the image reads 'Time capsule discovered under founder's statue-' The statue of John Robert Godley, the founder of Christchurch, has toppled and a time capsule has been uncovered in the rubble by three rescue workers. One of them reads the document he has pulled out of the capsule and it says 'Personally I favoured Akaroa...' Context - the Christchurch earthquake of 22 February 2011 after which 2 time capsules were found under the John Robert Godfrey statue - they have been sent to Museum experts to open. Akaroa was largely unaffected by the earthquake. A Nelson newspaper 'The Colonist' in an article published in 1918 about the time capsule in Christchurch said, "This statute of John Robert Godley executed by Thomas Woolner was erected in the west side of the Cathedral Square by the Provincial Government of Canterbury, and unveiled by the late Sir Charles Christopher Bowen on August 6 1867, it was moved to this site in March 1918." (3 News 2 March 2011) Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).