In the Eaves I Escape

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IN THE EAVES I ESCAPE INTA412_Daniel Brown

Semester Two 2013 Wellington City Gallery as Media Library

Wellington City Gallery: Civic Square, Wellington

Previously the Wellington Central Library

This elegant stripped Classical building, erected in 1939, was the result of a collaboration between the celebrated Auckland partnership of Gummer and Ford, and New Plymouth architects Messenger Taylor and Wolfe, after a competition was held to decide a winning design. Between 1990 and 1992 a new Central Library was built on Victoria Street and the old library successfully adapted for use as the City Gallery.

Wellington’s Old Shoreline Heritage Trail

“From within the safety of the house, I can venture to its edges, its perimeters, and, undetected, experiment with facing my fears of the dark, of the adults, of a large noisy world. In the eaves I escape, I huddle, I frighten myself, I cry and whisper and laugh and plot. In this hollow between the self I know and see and the one I do not know and cannot see yet, but sense I test my own limits and learn my own secrets.

In these hollow walls dwells the unknown, the in-between, the impossible, the unseen. Exploring them, I am hero and master of the unknown; I stare fear in the face and survive.�

Inside Fear: Secret Places and Hidden Spaces in Dwellings, Anne Troutman