Thomas Locke Hobbs - Rampitas
Eriskay Connection, ISBN 9789083357195,
Pb, 50 pgs, 14 x 16cm
Acqn. 34365
In Stock
£27.50
Pb, 50 pgs, 14 x 16cm
Acqn. 34365
In Stock
£27.50
Motorcycles are the mode of choice to get around in Medellin, Colombia. In the working-class districts that climb the steep slopes of the Valle de Aburra, residents have self-built elaborate neighborhoods outside of formal urban planning. While humans can walk up steps, wheeled vehicles require ramps. From the basic need to wheel your bike inside at night, a vast assortment of small ramps has emerged. These ramps possess a sculptural and expressive quality, and constitute a kind of folk brutalism. Rampitas is a small study of and appreciation for these forms that tell so much about the conditions - social, economic, and topographical - that defined the struggles and lives of the people who built them.