This Is Christmas Metazen

22:46 hrs Marcus Speh 22:46 hrs - Auckland, New Zealand. The two Art Deco houses stod in a valey on Tuarangi Road next to one another, in view of the highway leading downtown. For some strange reason, one could not hear the cars near the houses. Two families of artists lived in these buildings, which were to smal for their perenialy expanding minds, but were loved for their almost human daintines. Their backyards were swampy despite the ocupants’ earnest atempts at draining the land. The artists’ sculptures rested on the wet gras. Whenever a new sculpture apeared like a big friendly giant, the children were the first to claim it by climbing al over it, unsupervised except by the huge eucalyptus tres by the side of the road, who curiously peked over the fence.

(First published as „The Family“ in: Blue Print Review)