Fiona Farrell: Library books were our way out, our way up
Essay
We resurrected a library that was shaken to pieces. Surely we can repair one that’s showing its age.
“ … her father took her to the Library. The Library was a massive edifice, an athenaeum, a temple, one of several on the main street with columns at the front carved with leaves, as if the stone went up and up until it could bear to be simple stone no longer and must sprout … The doors to the Library were of glass and heavy polished timber and when they swung to, it was with a flump flump, a sound like velvet. There was the smell of paper and the rustle of pages turning over on the long table where people were reading newspapers …
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The floral tribute to the Christchurch shootings at the Rolleston Ave entrance to the Botanic Gardens. (First published March 20, 2019) She said it was inspiring to spend so much time with the women. “They made me realise how wonderful they are and how much we can learn from them.” Gil also photographed objects to capture the sense of absence left behind by those the 51 people who died in the attack. The exhibition, which runs until March 19, also includes paintings by artist Viv Kepes. Her paintings capture the tribute flowers that were laid across New Zealand in the wake of the March 15 attack.