The ubiquitous shipping containers around Christchurch have been multi-purpose beasts, from storage to shops, and serving as protective shields they have been the city’s blu-tack in terms of varied use. Their appearance is also suggestive of a network of stationery train carriages parked around the city, devoid of the flashing transience, but still providing a number of surfaces prime for decoration. They have been adorned in a number of ways, often painted or covered as part of commissioned projects to alter their steely facades. But due to their pervasive nature they have also been adopted as canvasses by the uninvited, their surfaces covered in quickly produced names, faces, characters and messages…