One of the beautiful things about being in a country like Bangladesh is that things are revealed. Well, more that they aren’t hidden. In the West our concern for safety, procedure, and sense of propriety means that many things are off limits, difficult to see. But here things spill out onto the streets. Like this building site, where a horrendously dangerous environment has been created right on the footpath as the builders have decided that that’s the best place to dump their rocks and steel bars. It’s a random act of civil landscaping. Impermanent, spontaneous, and revealing. I didn’t even think that buildings were made out of rocks. But they must be because there they are. And if I want to I can wander around the entire building site figuring out how a building is put together. That is, I could have if I hadn’t sprained my ankle on those steel bars. But it’s the potential that counts.
Posted 2 years ago
