For a few years now, I’ve been navigating an internal struggle with my life’s work. The conflict between my own innate desire to design, to create, and to make; to enrich people’s lives - and the guilt associated with being in a profession and an industry that essentially promotes consumption. A design field that ultimately is driving factories to produce more, people to buy more, environments to be polluted and endless waste to be discarded.
Read MoreHere we are on day 33 - the final day of NZ’s Alert Level 4; the strictest lockdown on our everyday freedoms that New Zealand has ever seen. Life, as we knew it, has been flipped upside down. If someone asked us what we thought 2020 had in-store for us, it definitely wouldn’t have been this. On reflection of the past 33 days, I’ve compiled a list of a few of my insights from our time in lockdown - the things I’ve learnt, what I’ve loved, what I’m thankful for, and what I’m excited about in the future.
Read MoreI like to call it Footpath Musings. Every time I come across one of these mini artworks, I can’t help but smile. Here are kids and adults alike, creating an open-air, temporary exhibition - and unintentionally recording this historic time and our collective predicament.
Read MoreToday a timely post popped up on the Old Girl’s Facebook page of my former high school. In 1944, the students were forced into their own Quarantine for 10 days, as one of the house prefects had developed Scarlet Fever. “On Being in Quarantine (From a Day Girl’s Point of View)”, written by D.W, was published in the school magazine, which the Archivist has recently rediscovered - an uncanny find given the timing.
Read MoreIntroducing ‘Field Finds’ - snippets of visual goodness found while out in the field. Colours, textures, patterns that make me do a double take, ones are definitely worth saving into my inspiration folder.
Read MoreAs borders close, and the travel industry dries up, thousands of aircraft around the world have made their way down from the skies to find temporary homes. They’re being parked wherever there’s space at airport gates and on runways. But I find these images disconcertingly beautiful - does that make me a bad human?
Read MoreIntroducing ‘Field Finds’ - snippets of visual goodness found while out in the field. Colours, textures, patterns that make me do a double take, ones are definitely worth saving into my inspiration folder.
Read MoreIntroducing ‘Field Finds’ - snippets of visual goodness found while out in the field. Colours, textures, patterns that make me do a double take, ones are definitely worth saving into my inspiration folder.
Read MoreWe can’t control how this Covid-19 situation is going to play out, or how long it is going to take to ride the wave. But we can control our mindset, and with it, our appreciation for the good things in life, however small they may be.
Read MoreIn all of this uncertainty, we can be certain of only one thing. There will be a shifting of the tide. But it will take time. For now, we just have to go with the flow, gently riding the current. And when the time is right, we will be washed back to shore again. Stronger, and more resilient than ever.
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