I love libraries. When I was little, my dad took me, each week, to the local library in our tiny northern industrial town. No doubt, actually quite small, the library seemed huge to me. Steve Latham While he perused the adult shelves, I borrowed books of classic boy’s […]
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History and identity from art
At 71 years of age, Alberto Lescay has carried out the majority of his work in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, his homeland. He has dedicated almost half a century to the world of monumental shapes, paintbrushes and colours. His work can be seen in pieces such […]
Hidden in plain sight
For many people, it is now difficult to let 24 hours pass without either sending or receiving an email, using some form of social media or managing finances and other matters online. Behind the seductive comfort of all this are data centres which store the text, pictures and information. […]
Capitalism creates desires
Popular culture enjoins us to follow our desires, to pursue our dreams. But is it sufficient? This can be considered exteriorly and interiorly. Steve Latham Exteriorly, we must ask: Do we really want what we want? It is a commonplace observation that capitalism creates desires, for objects and […]
Police: the ‘soul’ of cities
Everyday life forced early man to defend himself against the threats of the environment, whereby it started to plan, create and apply this concept until it became an actual entity. Silvio Gonzalez The first institutionalised police force that came about in the modern world was in the UK, […]
















