NZ visual diary - entry 28

take a number

As a way of organising city streets, the grid plan may be more than 4,000 years old. Within the context of urban commercial enterprise in which all items of value are carefully measured, quantified and distributed, the grid plan precisely divides and allocates one of a city's most valuable commodities - land.

In a fanciful moment, as I observed how construction scaffolding demarcated lots of exacting sizes on the Queen Street building facade pictured in the image above, I imagined the conversation among street artists as each artist vied for a tract on the facade's grid plan.

"wait your turn, then take a number."