Coffee in drawings out

Coffee in drawings out

Learning to draw is building a tunnel

Keep going! You will break through.

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Andrew James
Jul 09, 2025
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Almost every day, I ride my bike through a hole in a hill; the Karori tunnel. It connects the suburb I live in with the rest of the city of Wellington. Tunnels can help you draw too.

I don’t think about how it got there. Occasionally, I notice the “AD 1900” sign above the entrance that shows just how long this tunnel has been making moving easy.

The first…

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