Invisible City is an intervention in an otherwise highly designed pedestrian area; it references the shape of the buildings and commands attention like two pages of a book. Invisible City is a collaboration with blind poet, Peter Beatson of Palmerston North. The poem in Braille relates to Beatson’s physical experience of walking around Wellington.
Invisible City
by Dr Peter Beatson
The word made flesh can bleed; are we bound or free?
Embracing visual silence, alone I breed
a virtual skin of words across the void
but if the fault line ruptures, the word made flesh will bleed.
By the unseen quay I plant this graven seed.
Flayed by the wind, of permanence devoid,
tethered sign to skin, we’re both bound and freed