Antony Gormley / Stay 2015
A plaque at Stay, standing in Christchurch Central. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
Antony Gormley / STAY 2015 / Commissioned by Christchurch City Council for integration into Te Papa Otakaro Avon River Precinct With generous support from Anderson Lloyd Lawyers Antony Gormley, Aurecon, Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA), The Fletcher Construction Company Metapopore Charitable Trust and RCP / Installed in 2015 for the SCAPE 8 Public Art Christchurch Biennial
The register’s own frame
The council’s image, opened at its own host, the frame is the record’s, the reading is yours.
Where it stands
The record’s own pin; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.
In the archive
A name read off an inscription is a lead, not a verified identity, the search is where verification starts.
The ground under it
The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →
Around it
The reports nearby
5,927 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 4,827 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art
Pavement - Damaged
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa
Accessibility
Hazard, vehicle
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Trees - General
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Animal - General
Damaged RoadQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Stay in Christchurch Central, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.
The words above, verbatim, the surveyor’s transcription, casing, spelling and typos as they were read off the other. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
The register marks it in service. The books' word, though, a plaque may have weathered since the survey, and the pin is the record’s position.
The record behind this
Christchurch City Council’s open data, the Furniture service’s Plaque layer. The inscription is the surveyor’s transcription; "In Service" is the books, not a promise the plaque still reads clean today. The pin is the record’s position on the layer.
This page as markdown: /plaque/310892-stay.md · the roll: /plaques · the record as data: /plaques.json · on the big map: /map?layer=plaques · the monuments the crowd mapped: /memorial · what stood on this ground before: /before.