Room

Hi there! I'm Rosa Hughes-Currie. I'm twenty one years old and might have gone to school with you. Or maybe not. I am studying for my PhD in physics. I like poetry and music and novels and bush walks and dogs. Actually, I like a lot of things, so I cut the list a bit short. I also really like making pals, especially with amazing people, which is lucky because I seem to meet a lot of them.

Anyway, here are some pictures of my room. Let me tell you about it! I live in a flat in Ilam with my pals Luke and Merryn. One is studying to be a chemistry teacher and one is studying psychology and is involved with a lot of theatre and musical productions at uni.

There is my large Collins dictionary which is used to settle vicious scrabble and boggle disputes. The dictionary is law, but it is so large it has pretty much every word you might think is maaaybe a word in it so if you are ever playing scrabble at my house I suggest you guess at some plausible but obscure words. There is a map of the world in the Mercator projection. this is actually one of my least favourite projections because it makes richer areas of the Earth, like Europe, seem to have much more land mass than it really does in comparison to places like Africa and South America. I prefer the Galls-Peters projection which keeps the land mass the same. I think the different ways you can map spheres onto flat surfaces is pretty interesting but I admit it's not for everyone.

There is the painting my pal James gave me for my birthday. There is a picture of Nick Cave in a very messy room which makes me feel better when my own room is messy. There is my duffel coat which my pal Sophie gave me because she was leaving the country. It is as close as you can get to being in bed wrapped in cosy duvets while being outside in the Christchurch winter. There are pictures of things that are good to think about: renewable energy, fusion reactors, comets, river deltas. There is a beautiful painting by Salvador Dali.

There is the zine I made and distributed to strangers. It is about a relationship I am still a bit cut up about. There is an envelope that held a "sorry you broke up" card from Sophie. There is a letter from Marissa. I really hate people I love being far away but I really like receiving mail!

There are some photos of beautiful parts of New Zealand from an old calendar, and one photo of Shanghai. There is a photograph of my mum when she was young and angry at the American military!

Okay, well, that's my room!

Room Post #2

My room has 1x door. On my door there is:
- a painting of me done by Damien Taylor
- envelopes sent to me from people rather than companies
- ink cartridge tabs
- a round of poem sandwich I did with Michele and his friend
- a series of uncomplimentary photos of myself stuck there by my friends

freshly vacuumed for yr njoyment

I bought shelves and brackets on trademe and put them up
to make a library. For my makeshift wardrobe I got a
vacuum cleaner pipe from the ecostore and attached it to the
 bottom shelf with dog chain. It holds all of my clothes
minus shorts socks boxers and ties and has not collapsed yet! 

My cacti make for an excellent anti-burglar system.
Winston growls at any intruders.

Skateboards/guitar

Wall tahi!

Here is my TV. It is currently on the Discovery
Channel but gets bad reception. 

Drawers built by Grandad and laundry basket from Nan,
both enhanced with eyes/lips from Sophie!
Alice the Camel holds my taonga.
"No, this is not interesting!!" message written by Rosa
many years ago while I was telling her a story
that I thought was cool but she obviously didn't.

Letter holder from Northcity Opshop (50c). Zine library made out of printer packaging.
Japan cancer mortality rate poster + drivers license from Sophie. Tree painting by me.
 Screenprints from a Beyond Resistance workshop.  Picture in pencil by Ineke.
Occupy Aotearoa Statement of Purpose that I read at the first Occupy Christchurch planning meeting.
Birthday messages from Josh, Nick, Laura and Nicola. Setlist from 2011 Unknown Mortal Orchestra gig in Wellington.
  Dog painting from Nelson market. Butterflies and flame prints from pop up shop in Wellington. Whakapapa from Dad. 

Wall rua!

Luigi is njoying his new spot next to Mr. Towel and the infamous hair envelope. Take that studylink!
I decided to put up my 21st party photo boards as it was much faster than taking all of the photos off and then putting them up indidvidually.
The amazing painting in the top right was bought from the ecostore for $5. I love it more and more every day.

Pixies poster bought from The Palms with Rosa in 2006 I think....Record player from Mum, playing The Golden Awesome (of course).
Excellent Wethey Original space banana painting done by Chris after I bought him a canvas.
Old stereo from the 80s which I have treasured for years. Speakers that like to cut out a lot.
Mario and Wario finally embracing. Battle of Breakfast painting done by myself.
Acrostic poem by Rosa. Party invitations from Tommy.
Sunset painting by Alex C. Numberworks certificate by Devereux.
Speech bubble picture by Ineke. Commiseration card by Rosa and Sophie.
Patrick picture by myself and Kirsten, 2006.

"work area" - old school desk and teal chair from trademe.
Real Estate poster/setlist from Dunedin 2012 gig.
 Lots of Mandarins given to me by Mum. 

Commune poster altered by Matt (see here).
Troll painting by Ronan.
Cows from a cafe in Bishopdale, with SOON added by me.
Speech from Jackie Opie, Ollie's Mum.
Other posters from magazines.

Sock/Underwear storage whiteboard from internet.
Super Soaker XP 95 from Trademe.
Sneaky felt pen camoflague troll by Sophie/Matt.

Fox scarf from Dunedin Art Gallery.
Toys from various places.
Prized green holepunch from NorthCity Opshop (50c!!!)

Hat hanger from Nelson Market.
Paper Recycling Kit from Olivia, Rosa's past Wellington flatmate.
Chess set from Mum.
Bookends from Trademe.
White Pikmin from Japan.
Green sunhat and purple beanie from Occupy Christchurch's Free Market.
Multicoloured beanie knitted for me by Gini.

Cambodian doll from Rosa. Link, Animal Crossing Fisherman, Pikmin and Bulborb from Japan (internet). Most CDs from Real Groovy, 2006-2008. T-Rex pepper shaker from Iko Iko in Wellington (Rosa has the white one). Munchlax from Farmers.

This is a photo of my tipuna Taiaho, given to me by my cousin Melanie for my 21st birthday. He watches over myself and my room. Around him are quotes from my Ngai Te Rangi ancestors.