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Dark image taken at down or dusk, obviously a coastline of a lake or sea, hardly visible in the fog. All is blue and black. Two people are in the foreground: there is a boy's face seen from the side and a dark silouette of another person's head, probably a woman, as her hair is long. They both are almost one with the shadow.
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TECHNICAL DATA:
| date: |
2000 |
| location: |
New Zealand |
| camera: |
Yashica |
| published in: |
Signlanguage |
| exhibited at: |
Ephemeris, Odense |
MEANING OF THE TITLE:
 Westerly wind blows over the North and South middle latitudes from west to east. More in the Glossary
SPECIAL (D)EFFECTS:
FACTS & TIDBITS:
The photo shows Exene and Henry.
COMMENTS:
Aoraki, New Zealand, Jul 09, 2004:
Those 'Westerlys' are all too familiar! Wellington isn't known nationally as "the Windy city" for nothing! My earliest memory of Wellington is of regular news coverage showing commuters struggling vainly with umbrellas blown inside out, and the local rugby team there is know as "the Hurricanes". Meteorologists have their work cut out here as the landscape alters so much in a small distance and so does the weather so we are always talking about it. An important wind is that which blows "westerly" across the Tasman Sea picking up moisture. The Cook Strait between north and south islands funnels the wind and it is very strong there, and of course Wellington is right there at the bottom of the North Island. The Kapiti Coast just north of Wellington get's its fair share too. In the South Island, the weather slams into the West Coast, laiden with heavy rain, which falls as the air rises to go over the Southern Alps and blows east across the Canterbury Plains and Christchurch on the leeward side as a hot dry "nor'Wester" (a nasty wind, full of static electricity, which makes migraine suffers cringe, babies cry and people in general a bit grumpy). I could be wrong of course but I think Viggo's "Westerly" was taken on the West Coast of the South Island - it looks like the coastline at Punakaiki, the Pancake Rocks. That is an incredible spot too, especially when a wonderful Westerly hits at high tide and the water spouts and sprays through the rocks and blow-holes. Exciting stuff. Tourists like to time their visit for high tide regardless of the time of day and I felt that "Westerly" had an evening feel about it.
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