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Lois Place, Avonside Residential Red Zone, Christchurch, 2014, Discarded chemical toilet
Accession Number:
UC-APC-1256
Sub Collection:
Art Purchases Committee Sub Collection
Creator:
  • Veling, Tim J., 1980 
  • Date of Creation:
    2014 - 2014
    Media:
    Photograph. C-Type digital print on Fuji Crystal Archive paper,2/3
    Description:
    Edited text from: http://www.timjveling.com/vestiges

    Vestiges: Avonside Residential Red Zone

    This series of photographs is a work in progress and follow on from THX 4 THE MEMORIES.

    Avonside - a patch of land measuring 1.3 square kilometers and home to over 3200 people - suffered large-scale damage, particularly as a result of flooding, land subsidence and liquefaction. Entire streets were covered in silt and raw sewerage and the area was without power or clean, running water. Testament to the spirit of the community that called Avonside home, neighbors banded together and helped each other clean up and rebuild. Unfortunately, no sooner than the last wheelbarrow of silt had been carried off to landfill, Christchurch shook again...

    Walking through Avonside now is a disorientating experience. One day a house is occupied, washing hangs on the line and a television can be heard from the street. Next week, there's hardly evidence it ever existed...
    Size:
    Actual- 699 x 1510. Frame- 740 x 1554 mm
    Subjects: