It’s been fun to explore my city all over again. Still the same mellow, sub tropical place it was when I left in 1983, it is now so much more diverse. Restaurants, cafes, galleries, markets, boutiques, are thriving and turning it into an alluring city that has more than just its natural beauty to it’s bow. Recently I stumbled into Starkwhite Gallery on Karangahape Road and was bowled over by a large image of what looks at first glance like a typicalNew Zealand scene: a hillside full of sheep with the occasional scruffy black sheep dog.
                    

“Farm” was surrounded by other arresting images of seemingly every day subjects, all with something slightly askew. My suspicion was aroused by the number of sheep crammed onto that rolling field. I’d never seen one so crowded and I wondered where the image might have been taken. That’s when I started to see the pattern. Parts of the image re-occur, creating a repeat pattern that reminds me of lace, and music, and mathematics, and symmetry, and…… knitting.

This and the other images I saw are the work of Jae Hoon Lee, an Auckland-based artist. You can see more here. 

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