Le Document — Issue Six
Welcome to issue six of Le Document.
What a month it has been. The lockdown has continued, many children in the UK have returned to school and there have been some very powerful protests globally after the brutal murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Can culture work within these contexts? It must. There is no other way to fight the system. Money, power and corruption tend to be neat bed fellows. Culture has and always will be able to expose the rot that often manifests itself within these institutions. But culture is often just a reflection of the best and the worst, so an old Empire sculpture erected 200 years ago now has the power and symbolism to reverse false truths by its very act of being pulled to the ground. It can’t right a wrong but it might just allow us to move forward and begin to rebuild our society.
Blimey, Brix Smith Start has answered some really amazing questions from Mr Harry Pye about life after The Fall and her other fantastic music projects. John Hegley has pondered how to pronounce Braque within a poetic ditty straight from his most recent notebook and we have a very ‘concrete’ painting from Geoff and Eilidh Lucas. Sticking to our Nature theme we have a bird in flight for Photo of the Month and a profile of a singer song writer who penned a song comparing love to a butterfly.
Peter Suchin offers up an essay on the work of Cornelia Hesse-Honegger and Chris Tosic recounts a truely successful find in his local charity shop. There are some familiar features including a profile of Dolly Parton and Gemini star sign insights from Jo Mama. Never an editorial team that rests on it’s laurels, we have a brand new feature called Seven inch round-up in which the Le Document editorial team reviews some of their favorite and not so favorite singles released this month.
What more could you want dear reader, pull up a chair, sit back let time worry about its own problems because for the next half hour this is your moment to forget lockdown and geo-political conundrums and wallow in the world of Le Document. Enjoy.
Until next month,
Chris & Harry
Cover image Workin’ my little yo-yo by Chris Tosic
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