Welcome to Auckland’s original ‘Municipal Destructor’. Everyone, like me, know it as Victoria Park Market – a super popular open air market through the 80's to 2000's – a great place to buy your crystals and tie-dies etc! I've always known that it was originally the city rubbish dump – when the city was waaaay smaller). There is more to the story, of course. It was originally created in reaction to a bubonic plague scare in Sydney. For sanitary reasons it was built to burn Auckland’s rubbish and waste while using the heat generated to provide electricity to power the city. Sounds pretty clever eh, and I guess we were plague free. However, we must have been breathing some seriously toxic smoke fumes! That 38 metre tall chimney must have helped a little but don't forget all the horse manure and night carts, they were definitely smellier times. The municipal destructor is now a gentrified place that's home to restaurants and businesses, like the superb Milenta restau...
I've been having a bit of fun with mono printing lately. The weather has been atrocious so why not!
Starting with a couple of the cars sketched at the Ellerslie Concours earlier this year. They're sketched sitting directly in front of the headlight, usually while sitting on the ground — the perfect angle to replicate a feeling of speed.
The finished articles are a bit of a 'spot the difference' exercise, the hardest part being picking which one is the water colour painted original and which have been coloured digitally. As this is the Monte Carlo rally replica Mini Cooper 977ARX I've put it in context with some bleak snow and grit.
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