A bookshop in
many parts
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SHIPPING
CONTACT
Blue Flower Texts
can be found at
Natural Hand in
Lyttelton
10 Oxford St
F 2pm-7pm
S 11am-4pm
A bookshop
in many parts
SHOP CURRENT
SHOP PART III
SHOP PART II
SHOP PART I
ABOUT
SHIPPING
CONTACT
Blue Flower Texts
can be found at
Natural Hand in
Lyttelton
10 Oxford St
F 2pm-7pm
S 11am-4pm
WEATHER PAINTINGS
AMMON NGAKURU
$40.00
Medium Duty
80 pages, soft cover
9780473634254
Ammon Ngakuru’s Weather Paintings is the first publication from Ngāmotu based Medium Duty. Edited by Simon Gennard and including an interview between Ngahuia Harrison and Ngakuru, and a new essay by Will Pollard on the weather and its unreckonable power, a topic very close to my own heart (the weather is not small talk). Lushly reproduced images of Ngakuru’s work are spread throughout the catalogue, painterly meditations on, as Gennard writes “a series of questions about what gets sedimented upon the everyday.” Ngakuru’s work is so sharp because it incises the visual culture of those who are looking; the contour of an Uber, an appropriated cover of a semiotext(e) book, the name of an elite Auckland restaurant are all hyper-specific interrogations into taste and criticality. It feels personal, and that’s the charm and the trick and the genius of this oeuvre and this book.
AMMON NGAKURU
$40.00
Medium Duty
80 pages, soft cover
9780473634254
Ammon Ngakuru’s Weather Paintings is the first publication from Ngāmotu based Medium Duty. Edited by Simon Gennard and including an interview between Ngahuia Harrison and Ngakuru, and a new essay by Will Pollard on the weather and its unreckonable power, a topic very close to my own heart (the weather is not small talk). Lushly reproduced images of Ngakuru’s work are spread throughout the catalogue, painterly meditations on, as Gennard writes “a series of questions about what gets sedimented upon the everyday.” Ngakuru’s work is so sharp because it incises the visual culture of those who are looking; the contour of an Uber, an appropriated cover of a semiotext(e) book, the name of an elite Auckland restaurant are all hyper-specific interrogations into taste and criticality. It feels personal, and that’s the charm and the trick and the genius of this oeuvre and this book.
