Hi.
HI’m Mandi.
I used to be a U.S. Naval Officer. Now I am a hippy artist and body positive activist living in New Zealand.
This website is where I house my personal work. The work that bubbles up from the muse and I kind of just have to make it. I make it for myself. and as a way of looking deeper at something that has caught my eye or tripped up my imagination. I make it for the people of world as a way of begging us to see past the superficial and to get down to the real meaty raw good stuff of our soul.
I usually work as part of a collaboration. Either between simply the model and myself but more often with a whole amazing crew of brilliant people. I am blessed to live in Wellington, New Zealand where we make great films…which means the talent pool is so rich and deep, but we are like a small village, so it is easy for us to connect and rift and create cool stuff together.
Most of my work is Allegorical in nature. Some comes from visions I get when I do a meditative dance called Chakradance. Sometimes the ideas flow in the shower or on a walk. Basically I just make stuff that makes people stop and think a little deeper about things. At least that is my goal. To make something that challenges our often toxic wonky mindsets and says “Hey…Have you ever thought about it like this?”