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A man charged with stealing a New Zealand flag, defaced with the words "Please walk on me", from an art gallery said he went to the exhibition hoping that it would be hanging on a wall or behind a barrier.
Instead, he found the flag on the floor, part of an art installation that has been provoking discussion and protest since it was first displayed 30 years ago.
Bryce Gambirazzi, of Napier, said that he thought the installation was "unnecessarily divisive".
"It's an interactive art piece and I interacted with it," Gambirazz
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