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Another arty day, this time in New Plymouth. As well as many little galleries, shops, and the coastal pathway, we thoroughly enjoyed the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre. The building itself is a fantastic piece of architecture; an intriguing design that seems, like the Tardis in Doctor Who, to be a lot bigger on the inside than the outside would have you believe. Athough a fair bit of the centre was closed (as new exhibitions were being built), I enjoyed Simon Ingram's beautiful 'Vibrating World: Rotokare Forest', a massive video /digital art representation of light and texture in a forest canopy. Yuko Mohri's intriguing piece 'Decomposition' uses dying organic matter (pieces of fruit) as a medium of expression. Described as a “living dead electronic installation”, electrodes capture the cellular decay of the fruit as electrical signals and turns it into an everchanging series of tones and sounds. After a quick snack, we headed back inland and up into Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki to spend our penultimate night in a mountain lodge. Let the reading, eating and sleeping begin, for tomorrow, the Forgotten Highway beckons. #art #taranaki #winterroadie

Dozing on the flight home this morning and spluttered awake to this…. #Taranaki #Earth