Jewels of 6035, 2025

Jewels of 6035, 2025. Ngaio, Wellington, NZ.

Abandoning my car that day allowed me to slow down and reorient myself with my locality. What had been a blur of nothingness as I raced towards the school bell became textured, dimensional, alive. I realised that it was the ordinary, nuanced characteristics that distinguished this place from the other places I had known.