Social Commentary

Madonna, Mother and Whore : notes on vandalism at Bulgaria’s most photographed monument

Decades of appalling vandalism nearly destroyed one of the world’s most endangered monuments in Buzludzha, Bulgaria.…
Climbing up the slide : the annoying slang of architecture

Morphologies, programmatic adjacencies, and spatial compositions : it’s all Greek to me, as I take a…
The Drift : an interview with the Agoraphobic Traveller

“Get out. I need to go to my Mind Palace” Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock, S2 :…
Killing him softly : velvet vandalism on Kyjov’s Lenin statue

“Go and look for the dejected once proud Idol remembered in stone aloud Then on coins…
Teddybär

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig…
Peiraiki-Patraiki : the chronicle of an industry’s death foretold

“So many coincidences for the untrammelled fulfilment of a death so clearly foretold.” Gabriel Garcia Marques,…
Dark Modernism : the forgotten story of an abandoned Jewish boarding school

The premises of a groundbreaking Jewish boarding school played an active role in both WW1 and…
The eagle dance of Zeibekiko : an expression of the Greek soul

The unique, soulful Greek dance called Zeibekiko is steeped in folk tradition, has no specified steps…
Tubular Monuments : the strange allure of basic geometric shapes

“What the fuck are they gonna do with all these tubes? What the hell do they…
The Hellboy Parable : the controversy of using historic monuments in media

The use of historic monuments as backdrops in movies and advertising can be as challenging for producers…
Post-travel in the 4.5 stars era

Quite often, we find ourselves planning the next big trip, a week long holiday or so…
Count Kevin and the new Dark Age

The ongoing, breaking story of Kevin Spacey’s conduct (2017), reminds me of the old legend of…