Fri, 29 May

COLOMBO STREET DEMOLITION SITE, INTERIOR Cadmium red-orange: one vein, structural steel beam, upper register. Length approx. 14m. Condition: alive. Manganese violet: shadow on eastern concrete column, recurring. See also: doubt, load-bearing. Fantail [pīwakawaka]: rebar, upper right. Tail fanned. Not decorative. Not symbolic. Present. Decision: located at vanishing point. Depth unknown. Consult: the room itself. Architects (×2): subordinate entry. Rolled drawings, arms. Faces oriented toward subject. Cross-reference: patience, waiting for the sentence to finish. Fog: smeared impasto, pale manganese, frost-held. The city beyond the windows: dissolved. No entry. Hand, raised (mid-gesture): see argument; see listening; see both at once. Weight of the space: distributed across floor joists, parallel, receding. Bears: everything being decided here.