> While I am certainly for modernity and civilization, human -built
> structures, especially monumental ones, being overtaken by nature and
> vegetation, has a strong appeal to my "degenerate" aesthetic sensibilities.
This reminds me of those paintings from around 1700, maybe? of assorted contemporary European architecture in ruins, reclaimed by weeds and forest. They fascinated me when I was a child, and it's fun to imagine locals in the same way in you're in a Kunstlerish mood. His new book sucks BTW.
-- Andy