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SLEEK SLABS

Apr 30 , 2024


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A street food vendor around the Stadium area pockets his inventory on a cosy corner wall. The area is being renovated as the eponymous soccer field's protracted construction nears completion. Bicycles for rental, informal driving instructors and the make-shift tent shops synonymous with the area are being slowly removed.  The six-decade-old stadium has been under construction for five years due to changing contractors and skyrocketing input costs. Kejela Merdasa, the minister of Culture & Sports, has recently placed a deadline for next year.  


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ROLLING RELICS

What looks like a family's careful move from one home to another has instead turned into a rolling paradox on wheels: a modest pickup truck groaning under a mountain of life bundled in a blue tarp, tightly strapped as if the future itself might slip off mid-journey. Perched on top like a crown no one asked for is a full satellite dish, because nothing says “we're relocating” quite like insisting on uninterrupted signal while your furniture is literally holding on for dear life. Behind it, tr...


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GREEN ALLIANCE

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FIBRE COMMAND

Around Saris, a quiet workshop turns into a kind of “thread highway,” where a young man sits at the centre of what looks less like a loom and more like a carefully tamed explosion of strings. In front of him, hundreds of taut white threads stretch out in perfect formation, behaving with suspicious discipline, like they've been told not to misbehave today. He smiles from behind the frame as if fully aware he's presiding over a slow-motion miracle, one strand at a time. Around him, bundles of...