A community of shoebox apartment blocks
Two of the early submissions in the Boxing Day community art project.
Two of the early submissions in the Boxing Day community art project. The dinosaur box is the work of Spring Thomas and the Alice Through the Looking Glass box is the work of an anonymous artist.
Kas Muller and Toy Murchie are hoping that their White Room art space will be much too small for the collection of shoebox houses that were beginning to accumulate in the week before the Santa Parade. By mid-morning on a wet Santa Parade day there were 26 entries and they were attracting crowds of impressed onlookers.
"It's called Boxing Day; it's a community art project," said Kas. "It was Laura Manson's idea and we really like it. We went around the schools and got a very good response from kids but it's for adults too."
Kas explained that the boxes will be secured to the wall, stacked floor-to-ceiling and allowed to fill the entire White Room and, if necessary, part of the adjoining Lollokiki Gallery in Takaka's Commercial Street.
Neil Wilson
