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Christina Conrad Christina Conrad is New Zealand's famed "outsider" artist. Her poems are featured in The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Verse and The Oxford Book of Modern New Zealand Poetry. Her paintings, clay icons, and artistic theories have been the subject of three documentary films. Conrad's paintings have also been shown by major galleries and museums in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. She is the daughter of the English painter, Patrick Hayman. Read the interview.
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1970, Waiheke Island
Christina Conrad
the room with the black stove
was
small -- bare
broken
its window -- cracked
the child played in this room
on a cold night
creeping over the floor
playing
with dried oil paints
under a naked light bulb
in the corner
above a huge mirror
was a hole in the ceiling
shewing the dead leaves
of a rats nest
around the peeling walls
were pictures
by my first born
of people in 2 faces
their hands
exploding fireworks
their
eyes
whirl pools
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