Camera phone
23 September - 10 October 2021
play_station artist-run space

There are 275 texts remaining on your 500 text plan and 6 minutes left to wait for the bus. Rainbow seats, glowing walls, hot gossip. The click of phone buttons and a waft of Lynx and BO fills the air around you. When I imagine platform D, it smells like a vape cloud - even though vapes didn’t exist then.

Attending an inner-city school with a futuristic, alternative vibe, I tasted urban life before the destructive 2011 earthquakes in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Camera phone memorialises the short-lived platform D of the city’s central bus exchange, envisaging an alternate direction for the rebuild and my teenage years.

Photos courtesy of play_station and Hendrix Hennessy-Ropiha