Gallipoli

There was a superlative exhibit on World War I’s battle of Gallipoli at Te Papa.  Each “room” of the exhibit was dedicated to story of someone connected to the war.  The Weta workshop crafted giant oversized statues of each war hero.  They worked off of still lifes from the era, but out of respect for the dead, used the faces of Weta employees who liked similar (in some cases eerily similar) to the heroes.
The young guy who gave us the tour of the Weta shop told us a story about this nurse statue.  The face was modelled on a particular Weta employee but another Weta employee spent months carving every curve, every line of her face.  The two have since married, which I think is beautiful.

It says a lot about where I was emotionally on my vacation to New Zealand that this placard toward the end of the exhibit instantly made me think of going back to work.