'New Zealand Odyssey', published in 1989 by Heinemann, was authored by me, Don Donovan (who did the text and illustrations) and Euan Sarginson, who did the photography and design. In this series of blog posts, I will publish some of my drawings.
You'd only see a thing like this in New Zealand; an old building with nowhere to go, its life extended by being turned into some sort of warehouse depôt for shoes. Somebody had hopes for it once; look at those quoins up the corner walls and the decorated pediments over door and windows.
Its brick construction suggests to me that if it hadn't already gone by then, the earthquakes would have demolished it. Good idea, really. So dreary.
© DON DONOVAN
donovan@ihug.co.nz
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