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 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…
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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 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”
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…
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