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The Block

The psychogeography of brutalist sculptures | House by Rachel Whiteread, image by Matthew Caldwell | The Block by Emilia Ong

I’d been drawn to it, when it had appeared one day in the middle nineties, bursting upon a patch of wasteland on the way to Roman Road, where my favourite morning market had offered cut-price clothes. My mother and I had gone to the market every now and then, and we’d punctuated our chilly trawl down the long, stall-congested street…

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