A determined man mowing an absent neighbour's lawn, an elderly lady peeping through her blinds, a forlorn man in a suit watering his local school's garden and a woman feeding stray red zone cats.
Four life-size sculptures by Christchurch artist Hannah Kidd will pay tribute to quiet moments of heroism in post-quake Canterbury. The distinctive sculptures, made from recycled roofing tin and steel, will populate the Re:Start mall in central Christchurch as part of the Scape Public Art festival.
The festival, which starts on October 3, will bring new public artworks to Christchurch city centre by artists like British superstar sculptor Antony Gormley, New Zealand conceptual artist Judy Millar and Christchurch artists Nathan Pohio and Pauline Rhodes.
Kidd said she wanted her sculptures to capture how people coped in the difficult months after the February 2011 earthquake.
