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Auckland

author: manda : Auckland, NZ
Monday, August 23rd, 2004

The Glory of a Sudden View: Auckland

author: manda : Auckland, NZ
Monday, November 10th, 2003

There Is No Bleaker Moment in the Life of the City Than That One Which Crosses the Boundary Lines Between Those Who Have Not Slept All Night and Those Who Are Going to Work

author: manda : Auckland, NZ
Monday, February 3rd, 2003

The Heat Has Fallen Down

author: manda : Auckland, NZ
Thursday, September 5th, 2002

Snapshots on a Refrigerator

author: manda : Auckland, NZ
Tuesday, August 13th, 2002

All You Need Is (city) Love

author: manda : Auckland, NZ
Sunday, May 19th, 2002

Auckland

author: manda : Auckland, NZ

(aotearoa) tall disused buildings stand at the foot of our city; their architecture holding against the tests of time and weather; graffiti and wheatpasters. their faces are colourful but their insides i can only imagine to be full of murky carpets and dust motes. at street level there are shop fronts, pokey-small and glass from sidewalk to ceiling. they have been appropriated for various art installations which bear no names or affiliation. they change at random, a nameless, faceless rotation, transition.

The Glory of a Sudden View: Auckland

author: manda : Auckland, NZ

the glory of a sudden view: auckland, new zealand coated in early yellow sun, k'rd dances to its own beat. business people walk towards work, lunches and work shoes in hand. a few people spill from bars onto the street. school kids, uniform in blue, mill across the street and all over the sidewalk. two young lovers are in the same post they take up each morning, just up from brazil. each is absorbed in the mundane conversation they share and hold the other as if they are holding a balloon, that although held with the simplest grasp will be lost with...