Country: New Zealand

New Zealand is the last stop on the map, all distance and green; Auckland, Queenstown among its lakes and mountains, and, far to the south, Christchurch are places I have only ever dreamt my way toward.

  • Charcoal sketch of the lakeside town of Queenstown below the snow-capped Remarkables - never been abroad

    Queenstown

    Queenstown is the town they built for people who cannot sit still, dropped between a long cold lake and a wall of bare snow mountains.

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  • Charcoal sketch of the flat Canterbury plains running away to the snow line of the Southern Alps under a wide pale sky - never been abroad

    Christchurch

    Christchurch reached me as a copy of England sent to the far side of the world — and then I learned the ground had shrugged and broken it.

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  • Charcoal sketch of a harbour of white sails under a tall slender tower, green volcanic cones behind the low city, islands on the water - never been abroad

    Auckland

    A city built across dozens of dead volcanoes, strung between two oceans at the far edge of everything — as far as Sydney, and then further still.

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