urban images – mandy flood

Broadening the Mind

So travel broadens the mind, well why am I still taking pictures of flaking paint? The truth is, it still excites me. Yes the truth is out, but I have come to realise that life is just one big contradiction. Now I know this is not rocket science, but from all the images I haveContinue reading “Broadening the Mind”

Interest in Shadows

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence AndContinue reading “Interest in Shadows”

An Unexpected Beauty

On turning a corner in the corridors of building one at Unitec I found this. A beautiful orignal vent from the inital breathing system of the building. To me that is a moment of rare beauty. Looking for one thing and in the midst of it’ something unexpected and special is found.

Aesthetic Dilemma

Two images I found whilst in Sydney this weekend. Put together they sum up my studio dilemma, or maybe just form the material that informs my practice. The everyday use of things along with the forgotten use of ornamentation on homes that once was so important in their design and status. I see so much beauty inContinue reading “Aesthetic Dilemma”

Unitec Sunday May 5th photographs by Mandy Flood

What else do you do on a sunny Sunday morning when the other half is at Wembley and I had children to entertain? So whilst the kids scootered within an inch of their life, I went snapping. The images are taken from quiet corners of Building 1. These are my inspirations. What’s inside? Behind? HowContinue reading “Unitec Sunday May 5th photographs by Mandy Flood”

Anzac find 25 April 2012

Join me in the discussion on Beauty. Does this evoke an emotion and feeling. To me I see elegance and beauty in form and shape along with various textures that evoke past memories of a different world. All of that equates Beauty to me am I wrong. Bring the debate on

More than just pattern

A piece of rusty decoration from a plant nursery in Matakana. What do you see? Circles with segments, stylised flowers, diamonds with curved edges or something else? This has found itself into my work book as a source of inspiration as I am looking further into grilles and layering of surfaces

Is the fog lifting

After 4 weeks of floundering around in my normal magpie manner I cautiously believe a point of light might be on the horizon. An insightful tutorial from Richard Fahey has peeled back a few more layers and his erudite ability was able to tell me what I suspected for sometime. Basically, the duality of myContinue reading “Is the fog lifting”