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...
The Kerala Sketchbook is now available. To purchase, just drop me a message or head over to my ETSY store.
Drawn over two weeks of travel sketching historic Fort Kochi on the Arabian Sea to
caparisoned (love that term!) elephants and the Thrissur Sketchgala festival in Thrissur at the largest festival in Asia, to sub-alpine tea plantations and colonial bungalows in Munnar, and to canal life in Kumarakom.
All sketched on location in 45°C heat while surrounded by a crowd of onlookers – coming from sparsely populated New Zealand I needed to quickly reset my idea of personal space!
This 56 page book contains 45 sketches painted in my signature gouache and kraft paper style.
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