But if Republican voters are truly trying to make rubble of the Capitol, why are those same voters turning out to the polls and re-electing their members of Congress at every turn?
We drive up a mountain, higher and higher on a road made of rubble and scree.
The bright red mud, wet from the evening rain the day before, gave it a real field quality, but the lines made of rubble made it authentic.
"But the young blonde died in the rubble of this attack," she says.
The rubble of this city had yet to be built into a wall.
Perhaps when new worlds are made from the rubble of the old, a more dynamic authenticity derives from the artists' talents and the vitality of their creation.
In the same room as the crabs, the artist has built a wall, made from the rubble of his studio, which had originally been sanctioned and encouraged by the Shanghai authorities.
Aside from the refurbishment of 10 houses, Assemble worked with the community to establish – using the prize nomination as a launchpad – Granby Workshop, a social enterprise selling items for the home, some of them made from the rubble of demolished buildings (reconstituted into bookends, or fireplaces).
As recently as 1967, they were still being described as 'timid troglodytes' (Doe [1992]:31), as they inhabitated mountain caves and shelters made out of rubble on the plains.
Today Vila Autódromo — that lies about hundred yards from the Parque Olimpico, the hub venue for the event — is largely made up of rubble from dozens of demolished buildings that covers the dirt paths that pass for streets.
