#kandahar
Mohmand Hospital Kandahar
(Image by Zabihullah Nasiri from Google maps)
Another thing from Kandahar (a city I will probably never get to visit). The Mohmand Hospital, a private hospital inaugurated last year by Ghani, and probably only for the people who can pay. What a strange object! the style seems to be demented rococo. Nothing near as ugly as the Mekka Clock Tower of course, which seems to be the illicit child of a gangbang involving a major Stalinist Cityhall, a turn of the century art deco skyscraper and the hidden level in a steampunk obsessed game-developer's wet dreams. Fascinating in all its absurdity (and a very well equipped and professional hospitalĂŠ too it seems).
#art #gonewrong #architecture #Kandahar #Afghanistan #hospital #nouveauriche #badtaste #inequality
James Rattray
Temple of 'Ahmed Shauh', King of Afghanistan
The current situation in Afghanistan in desperate. Posting memes found on Twitter doesn't mean anything and won't change a thing. Nothing will. But I do think about it and then I just have to go into the escapist dream world of history.
This is how the tomb of the King Aáž„mad ShÄh DurrÄnÄ« (I know, a tautology, as shah already means king) who conquered Delhi and more or less founded modern Afghanistan, looked in 1848. The building is still there in Kandahar. James Rattray was a British Lieutenant who made a rather fascinating work with a lot of ethnographic lithographies from his own sketches. I have been looking at other pictures to see those stately mountains and even though it might be exaggerated in this it does seem that it is a beautiful city in the mountains.
#art #print #lithography #graphicprint #graphicart #JamesRattray #AhmadShah #tomb #Kandahar #Afghanistan #1848
