Faiza Butt takes us around her favourite spots in her hometown.
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Asma (Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, Destinations) spent time with me at my studio in Stoke Newington and was delighted by the creative chaos that I live with. Yes, a degree of this chaos exists in my mind as well… I think, without that angst I will not make the obsessive works that I do. I decided to show her my neck of woods, so she can understand me as an artist, a migrant, a parent and a woman.
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My area is where the ‘Hipster’ movement established itself in London. The whole of Church Street saw a renaissance of bearded, tattooed and well-dressed men, selling coffee and cakes. My ‘hood is popular with the young and affluent crowd – all part of the gentrification of cities like London and New York.
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Lunch at a hipster cafe called The Good Egg, where the food has a wonderful middle-eastern Iraqi-Jewish focus. I come here to watch people.
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Faiza’s children Zack and Layla are often featured in her work. At every turn, she has raised them to be tolerant, humane individuals. “Whenever we travel, I take them away from Europe, to places in cultural contrast, to cultivate the beauty and diversity of humanity andto reveal the bridges that connect them,” she says.