Journal 2
Lightwave Gallery, under construction, 12 days into the build and great progress has been made, The sub structure to the raised walkway is in place, the shop front entrance is enclosed and glazed and my office is enclosed.

However, we have had a lot of electrical problems with the Karewa Room, we couldn’t work out the lighting configuration, as the week progressed we kept getting strange light flashes, a bright coloured anomaly but only at a certain angles to the light. This is what it looked like.

About wednesday we thought that we had better call for help, Steve and Ashley thought that they saw ghostly figure in the Karewa Room, these figure appear for a brief second when the lights are turned off, we had also noticed that tools had been moved and objects arranged is a ci…

I was asked by Creative Tauranga to present an idea for a piece of art for the new TECT Arena at bay Park to Tauranga City Council, a small number of artists and photographers were invited, lucky for me the idea was accepted.

Matapihi Railway Bridge – Morning, Noon and Night – The Concept

This work originates from a small seed of an idea, I had to photograph a panoramic view of the Matapihi Bridge from the harbour side. It’s an idea that grew and multiplied each time I visited the bridge, then it turned into a concept of “Morning Noon and Night."

concept presented to the council

A simple idea struck me just from looking at the rails. I’ve seen lots of rails around the North Island, and many of them are rusty and tarnished from lack of use. The rails at this location…