A City of Dust is a sort of New Topographics newspaper from Lewis Bush, that he claims is a sort of visual memory palace, compiled to aid in delivering a carefully researched speech that will never be given, “… a series of markers and fragments, guides to a greater whole which, like the past, can …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
Lewis Bush ‘A City of Dust’
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Lewis Bush – ‘A Model Continent’
Lewis Bush’s A Model Continent is a book of postcards from Mini Europe, a sort of theme park in Brussels built around 1:25 scale models of a few selected European Landmarks, built to celebrate the EU. I’m reminded of the Andy Warhol line in Basquiat “Hey, we could go to Pittsburgh! I kinda grew up …
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How to Give in Charity
Charity is important. Some of us are blessed with abundance; others are less fortunate. We Muslims are instructed to give in charity, and we believe that abundance is something God tests us with, to see what we’re going to do with it. I’ve probably written about charity before, and will likely get more into it …
Lewis Bush – ‘A Treatise on the Camera Obscured’
In “A Treatise on the Camera Obscured,” Lewis Bush recounts his experience of building a portable camera obscura, for use as a drawing aid. It’s an interesting story about a modern deployment of the centuries-old predecessor of every modern camera and image-recording device…
