You have to relate the graffiti to the world of art and remove anything crude… The same could have been said about graffiti during the eighties. Armando Orozco Tovar It was the time when “street artists” made an appearance, their closest predecessors being the “jucos”, communist activists, or […]
In Focus
In Focus
A word for love
The thing is that love could be in the spotlight or it could be greed and selfishness. Individualistic cultures lead to the latter. Mabel Encinas After the commercial wave in the name of love, it is worth thinking about its meaning. When I was at Uni, we discussed […]
A kind of blue
I let myself out through my garden gate, and walk into the side street, where we live. Above me, I see the bright blue sky, and the spiky, bare, branches of leaves, pointing starkly upwards. Steve Latham Looking for beauty in the centre of the city is a […]
Multiculturalism, a proposal for inclusion
Multiculturalism arose as a response to the challenges presented by immigration and as a way of proposing the democratic inclusion of immigrant ethnic minorities into society. Claudio Chipana The cultural wealth and diversity of the United Kingdom is apparent in its many traditions, ethnicities, languages and religious faiths. […]
Photographing limbo
The word limbo, signifying a state of waiting and uncertainty, used to be the name of a theologically-based location. Sean Sheehan It was a place, neither Heaven nor Hell, an in-between spot in God’s landscape that had a geographical exactitude: existing on the border of Hell – the […]