The Temple for Christchurch

I had to have a quarterzone injection in my thumb today as it has been so sore over the past few months and was told not to use it for a few days to let it work. So am one handed just now. Hope it works!

After the doctors visit I visited Auntie Nancy. I saw her the day before we went away and she wasn't feeling very well. Today she was a little brighter but I don't think he well be here for much longer. She was 103 in May and has been good up until now. Today she thanked me for all the visits and kindness over the years and she said "don't feel to bad for me if I am not here much longer".

So a sad day for me as I feel her life will soon be ended.

After the visit I went to see the 'The Temple for Christchurch' again. I visted on on Saturday, took a lot of shot.. which I am glad I did as today it was being deconstructed to start its move to Motukarara racecourse for the burn event on Septmeber 21 at 2:30.

The Temple for Christchurch is a large scale built artwork. Artist Tim Jago is chairman of the Temple for Christchurch Trust, a member of the International Arts Megacrew, and a native Cantabrian. Once completed, the public will be invited to explore the grounds, to pin thoughts and mementos to it, reflect, grieve, and find joy.

This project follows in the tradition of the Burning Man festival. The Burning Man temple is built every year on site and invites participants of the festival to come and bring their own hurts, troubles and trauma to be expressed on the walls of this Temple and then be burnt away on the last night. Tim Jago and his team is taking this concept and reimagining it here in Christchurch to allow people to process and release the emotions of the last 18 months of earthquakes. After being open to the public, the temple will be moved to a location outside of town and burned.

Tim and his team took the reading of the movement in the up direction of the 22 February earthquake, cut it in half and turned the spikes into a series of conical shapes. These will form the middle of the structure, a line of ever changing conical piles of wood. Coming out from this will be wave-like walls, starting at a height similar to the central conical piles and following a wave pattern that is inspired by the velocity of the movement in the up direction. This will create a hill-like mound with a wave effect running through it. All of the timber used in the structure is sourced from recycled demolition wood.
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