NZ Visual Diary - entry 162

A 10 storey commercial building sits at the corner of Queen and Swanson Streets. A sign to one side of the rear display window captured in today’s image reads ‘General Capital House,’ a reference to General Capital, one of the building’s tenants.

What to make of the art work? It has been in place for a considerable time. The film or glazing has deteriorated at the edges, no doubt from the constant exposure to the sun.

The scene depicts a row of houses, perhaps office buildings, with lovely rounded windows but there are no doors to be found. And the people, professional folk judging by their attire and accessories, are floating in superimposition upon the buildings and in odd perspective, shapes and sizes that present more like the two dimensional figures in early classic art work than contemporary renderings.

Odd but charming, a most curious find.