I wouldn’t call Auckland’s Inner City particularly pretty. It’s not like Melbourne, or Wellington where the art is RIGHT there, and you don’t have to hunt it out or sneak around and jump out at it to see it.

But Auckland’s been trying. They’re doing some construction in Aoetea Square (of which I hope is fixing the carpark hidden underneath) and so it’s all walled off. And some clever person decide to give it to a bunch of art students to use as a canvas. If nothing else, it was amusing for a little while, and hurrah for some form of function too!

So while we were out and about, me and Stevie found some art in the central city:

This piece is by Joy Chang, a recent graduate from UA’s Elam Art School. I forget what the name of it was called, or the gist of it’s mission statement, but I was glad that someone was out there making Auckland pretty. :)

We also wandered up Lorne St, for bit. And I don’t know how I hadn’t noticed it before, but the public seating have words on them, and each way they go from ‘Word’ to ‘Deed’. You know the drill, change one letter at a time and eventually end up at the other? Clever, right?

I was pretty stoked to discover that while the two end benches are the same, they get from word to deed two different ways!

I was also pretty stoked that Stevie was keen to come exploring with me today. If anyone can be counted on to take silly photos with Urban Art, it’s Stevie. Yay for having such friends :)