@article{ddl 308, author = {Ariane Severin}, title = {Visual Art: 'Ripped'}, volume = {5}, year = {2014}, url = {https://dandelionjournal.org/article/id/308/}, issue = {1}, doi = {10.16995/ddl.308}, abstract = {In 2003, I fell in love with Beirut and moved there three years later. The city was very different from my preconceived ideas of how it would be, but I felt strangely at home. Only recently have I come to realise that it was memories of my childhood hometown, Frankfurt, which made me feel so at home: another city where many still war-ravished buildings become the stuff of youthful fantasies. Beirut subconsciously reawakened that ‘ruin romanticism’ in me.}, month = {5}, issn = {2048-1322}, publisher={Birkbeck, University of London}, journal = {Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal and Research Network} }