the empire loops
found in glasgow. a plaque for john a. macdonald. not torn down, not defaced— just waiting. quiet. official.
the story is familiar. lawyer. prime minister. nation-builder. but here, the stones don’t pretend neutrality. they know what they financed.
this isn’t a canadian monument. it’s an imperial one. because macdonald didn’t just build a country— he extended a project. settler logic made portable.
the plaques change languages, but the story stays the same.
the empire loops. it doesn’t end. it reappears in bronze and sandstone, across oceans, still naming itself as legacy instead of violence.