Mouse-perspective; touristy
neck cranked to measure
immensity before me.
So I went higher, to cloudy hills
and gaudy views, where I knew
a great border Above.
Between the clouds I beheld
the enormity of structure, staring
into my eyes? An iris!
Tapestries. Shadow and relief
realized in stone. Baffled
before the incontrovertible
evidence of a benevolent
face? Rushing terrain brings
nostrils, now lips.
Orbiting in the stillness,
stories laid bare as skin
lesions glow.
The cost of working gears
displaces and appears red
as recent scars
where now sprawling sameness
mask the bruises, smooth
as plastic.
My city a single dot
for hands of a blind God
to glide over.
Feb 6, 2021
Feb 6, 2021 at 11:53 AM UTC
Mouse-perspective; touristy
neck cranked to measure
immensity before me.
So I went higher, to cloudy hills
and gaudy views, where I knew
a great border Above.
Between the clouds I beheld
the enormity of structure, staring
into my eyes? An iris!
Tapestries. Shadow and relief
realized in stone. Baffled
before the incontrovertible
evidence of a benevolent
face? Rushing terrain brings
nostrils, now lips.
Orbiting in the stillness,
stories laid bare as skin
lesions glow.
The cost of working gears
displaces and appears red
as recent scars
where now sprawling sameness
mask the bruises, smooth
as plastic.
My city a single dot
for hands of a blind God
to glide over.
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I was looking at the Twisted City promo video from Unreal Engine that presented a big city twisting its entire self around; similar to effects within the movie Inception (also I was messing with Landscape stamps at the time).
Enjoyed the idea of a slow-reveal finding out the city you've lived in your entire life (a big one like New York City or Tokyo) is a single eyeball in a giant tapestry stretching across countries and continents.
Using vertical height to handle shadows and relief to add "detail" to the landscape-painting could come from uprisings, revolutions and battles from different eras, leaving lasting marks on the land.
Maybe some form of authoritarian planetary government brings forth such an ambitious project to completion, considering the massive amount of displacement and violence that would occur.
Imperfections in the grand image wrought by societal instability and humanity just being humanity would be well represented in such an image. The ideal is massive, but too perfect; people have scars and imperfections that tell a story.
Perhaps in a Star Trek-like advanced civilization the technological ability to easily terraform and create massive cities and infrastructure at will is available, so it doesn't necessarily HAVE to be a ****** of a story.
Or, we could just do the magic / dream thing, I guess.
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