Urban decay appeals to the imagination. Inasmuch as degeneration is inescapable with age, it stimulates the mind, letting it drift to the memories and imaginations of a past that once was and a future that will be. The passage of time and the inevitability of collapse remind us of our own impermanence. dilapidation shows traces and voids as spaces for interpretation of shifting identities and tainted ideologies.
In this issue of The Augustinian mirror, we want to give you something new to ponder. We want to give you stories that serve to remind us that decay, in every essence, is unavoidable. hence, some good things come after these inevitable odds; depending on how to deal with its traces.
In this shift of milieu, the certainty of progress while the other decays are inevitable. As part of change, one must embrace these fragments in the midst of eccentricities; considered as part of a whole, a part of variation, and a portion of the transformation that does not render into apathy.
