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PIEDOG PRESS are the publishers of high-quality art prints by Sally Colahan Griffin and the novel Something Else by David Parkyn. We are based in Wellington, Aotearoa-New Zealand
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Something Else by David Parkyn
Towing an iceberg, modern day art controversies and life in inner city Auckland of the 1960s are in this story.
Overlooking an old boatyard, in a city threatened by drought, in a country wracked by unusual weather patterns, in a building marked for demolition, a fugitive from art contemplates a blank canvas, a jar of old brushes and a fresh page of his journal.
As he surveys the grounds on which he’s lived and worked ‘a mutinous crew’ conspire to take him on a voyage of salvage and recovery, into inner city Auckland of the ‘sixties to revisit the deaths which he believes his early obsession is implicated.
A voyage to illuminate a looming personal and global disaster, to navigate the shoals of art and politics, obsession and friendship, and the shifting shores of modern art movements.
‘…Let us therefore raise our glasses and peer over the ramparts to the crests & hollows beyond.
To art’s accomplice: to treason…”