cultural anthropologist || writer || professor
Because infrastructure is an art - and there is not much distance (if any at all) between the cities of our imaginations and those of brick, glass, and steel - is seems only too perfect that the building blocks of the urban imagination find themselves wedged in the concrete crevices opened-up in the built environment …
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“This is a unique opportunity to preserve a large section of what was once a death strip. If you remove the sections, you're destroying the authenticity of this place," Guardian quotes Noir whose painted section of the wall is to be removed. "It's unbearable to see that the wall here is being so brutally torn …
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What I like so much about Hyuro's work is the style: Simple color, elegant textures, contoured bodies. The netting cast around and through the bodies in Hyuro's pieces gives a sense of movement and struggle to her rather subdued scenes: Bodies entangled with other other bodies, other animals, that never have any apparent direction or …
Monica Patrice Barra 