NZ Visual Diary - entry 217

man at church door

My walk to K Road typically takes me across Myers Park. I enjoy the wide promenade of the walkway, the varieties of plant and tree life, the impressive structure of the Myers Park Kindergarten and, at the park’s southern edge immediately before the stairway that connects the park with the rear entrance to St Kevin’s Arcade, the marble reproduction of Michelangelo’s Moses.

Today, I elected to take a different route, heading from Federal Street to Mayoral and then Pitt Street. At the end of Pitt, just before it intersects with K Road, sits the Pitt Street Methodist Church.

Leaning against a door of the church, his torso and head covered by a tarp to protect him from a strong early Spring sun, sat a man - one bony leg bent at the knee and the other extended with foot splayed uncomfortably to one side.

The juxtaposition of his abandoned circumstances, on the one hand, and the beautiful combination of archway architecture and play of late afternoon light, on the other, was startling.