NZ visual diary - entry 23

entrance - Auckland High Court

Those fellow Kiwis who know this entrance to the High Court will confirm that my rendering of the building's feature is highly stylised. I have added layers of textured patterns to accentuate the stunning beauty of the entrance.

It is what I often bring and add to an image whose inherent form, colour and texture thrill me.

The four metal panels are remarkably evocative. The figures likely represent a family, parents featured in the centre and children aside them.

The patterns in the art work are familiar vectors of Māori iconography.

Together the four figures provide symbolic strength to the building, in architectural terms an artistic extension of the door lentil, with all the import that a door lentil contributes to the integrity of a building.