An Eye for Style

My previous posting ("Kiwi Creativity", Jan. 4) reported on visual delights that we have encountered in unexpected places. This is intended as a post-Wellington supplement of that entry. The above is a mural outside the tourist information office (which are located throughout NZ and known as "I-Sites") in a town in the Taranaki region called Piopio, thought to be named after the extinct native thrush. Here are some other examples of eye-catching fancy:

(Carved Maori-style panel from the interior of the Whanganui River paddle boat).

(Another exterior wall mural, in Wanganui).

(Exhibition of New Plymouth Stone Sculture Society, at the end of which the works were to be auctioned).

Even an ice cream truck can become a work of art. (New Plymouth) And, of course (as the leitmotif of this blog), the ubiquitous humble public toilet, here done up in synchromistic Cubist style:

Could Picasso have done better?

(Posted by Joan on Feb. 6th).