Advanced, Global Capitalism has no memory, no sense of nostalgia, no concern for the patina on things, the traces of presence over generations. Nowhere is this more visible than in cities, where all the old, vacant garment factories and bakeries and tenements are long gone, replaced by glittering high rises.
Metropole is Lewis Bush’s dirge against this incessant growth, a lament for all the lost spaces.
Continue reading “Lewis Bush – ‘Metropole’”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 never be reconstituted.”
Continue reading “Lewis Bush ‘A City of Dust’”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 there. They have this room with all the world’s famous statues in it, so you don’t even have to go to Europe any more… just go to Pittsburgh.”
Bush is perhaps somewhat less excited by the park than Warhol seems to be about the museum…
Continue reading “Lewis Bush – ‘A Model Continent’”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 later, but in Surah Baqarah, Allah azza wa jall tells us how to go about giving in charity. Continue reading “How to Give in Charity”
