Tag: Covid-19
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Protection
‘Fucking mask wearers’ swore the elderly gent as he and his wife looked around the farm shop tea room. He meant me, and I’d have taken it more seriously, if moments before he hadn’t sworn at everybody for parking their cars incorrectly. Still, it was an interesting pairing: authoritarian and pseudo-libertarian in one go. Nobody […]
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Compliance
Since Covid cases have exploded again, I’ve returned to the City of London for my exercise. The streets are quiet but there is always at least one fugitive figure in view. As we come into proximity, I find myself trying to categorise them: compliant or libertarian, responsible or feckless, aware or oblivious. Will they cross […]
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Hulks
Update. ‘Hulks’ is currently featured in the Architects’ Journal London’s ‘modern’ offices are empty and starting to look like monuments to a bygone era of commuting and communal work spaces. ‘Great, empty hulks as a painful memory of capitalist overreach..’ as Michael Regnier from my agency, Panos, put it when he saw the photos. I […]