Shadow Town: Christchurch artist recreates lost city heritage in miniature
“I am recreating objects which play an integral part in the city – posts, electrical boxes, which get forgotten about, things people make art on.” At Fiksate Studio and Gallery in Sydenham, a replica of Lyttelton's popular Volcano Cafe and Lava Bar shares white wall space with a dirty corner dairy. The latter recreated with exquisite attention to detail with both a Covid-19 screen at the door and a stubbed out cigarette on the footpath outside. Shadow Town also explores, in miniature form, the grimy side of urban life from a replica overflowing nightclub toilet, with “'smut scrawle...
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