The Shed

A WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORLD

A visit to Andrew Hall’s shed — a single garage in suburban Henderson, West Auckland — is a portal into another dimension. In this realm, a sense of humour is essential.

First, we must pass along a fence line fringed with upside-down vintage hand saws that wave in the breeze. The palings of the fence are festooned with disfigured Barbie dolls, rusting twisted metal, and strange totemic faces. Moving on, we pass an undergrowth of salvaged steel watched over by a larger-thanlife metal humanoid, whose gas cylinder belly has been converted

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